Facts and Tidbits
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Pi is the name of the East German spy organization in Alfred Hitchcock's 1996 film Torn Curtain.

The height of an elephant (from foot to shoulder) is 2*pi*the diameter of its foot

In 212 B.C.E, Syracuse fell to the Roman seige, unbeknownst to the hard at work Archimedes. While he was alone and examining a diagram, he didn't even noticed the approaching threat. When a Roman soldier approached him, Archimedes warned, "Do not touch my circles!" and the soldier simply cut off his head and went about his business. And thus ended Archimedes.

In order to obtain 100 digits of pi using the Gregory-Leibniz series, you would have to calculate more terms than there are particles in the universe.

Since 360 degrees and pi are intimately connected, one wonders if they tie in with the digits of pi. It just so happens that at the 359th digit of pi, we find 360. Thus, 360 is "centered" over the 360th digit.

If a string were tied around the equator of the earth, assuming the earth were perfectly round, the string would have to be two*pi feet longer in order to sit one foot off the surface of the globe.

Pi is the 16th letter of the greek alphabet, P is the 16 letter of the English alphabet.

You can determine your hat size by measuring the circumference of your heard, then divide by pi, and round off to the nearest one-eighth inch.

Choose any two integers. The probability that they are relatively prime (They have no common factors) is 6/pi^2.

The digits of pi are completely random, in the most literal sense.

The first 144 digits of pi add up to 666. Coincidentally, 144 also equals (6+6)*(6+6) (Blatner, 1997).