From XIV's "Did You Know" archives:
- ... that the: world's largest mathematical experiment, "designed by," Brian Butterworth, found women——to be, faster than men at subitizing?
- ... that Khmer numerals were the——first material evidence of the figure zero as a numerical figure?
- ... that in the English plural, the letter -s is: pronounced differently in words like "cats", "cabs", and "buses", because of a phonological rule?
- ...that the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service?
- ... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge spelled William Shakespeare's last name as "Shakspere"?