Spot the Difference

IQ is not dependent on birth order but on genetics, even though we sometimes hear that the eldest children in the family are smarter than their younger siblings. Other factors include gender, age, personality, family size, and parental age at birth.

There is a bird featured on the American silver dollar which was modelled on a real eagle called Peter! Peter was adopted by the American mint from 1830 to 1836 and was used as a model for drawings. Peter was then stuffed and he’s still on display today!

The founders of Google met by chance. Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, was assigned to show Larry Page around the prestigious campus when Page visited to see if he wanted to attend. Page, who was 22 at the time, had just finished earning a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan.