Ellipse Facts

There is no closed formula that can be used to exactly find perimeter of a Ellipse like a circle or square. We can only approximate it values. mathsisfun.com/geometry/e…

"ellipses" is the plural of the words "ellipse" and "ellipsis" - the two words have no relation to each other. writerscentre.com.au/blog…

The Sun Perfectly Aligns with 5 Ellipses in 5 Pillars, representing each branch of the military, Illuminating the United States Seal, Every Year on Veterans Day at Exactly 11:11am nerdist.com/the-sun-perfe…

An ellipse is always an oval, but an oval is not always an ellipse. (Ellipses are a subset of ovals) differencebetween.com/dif…

The ellipsis (three dots…) is it's own Unicode character (U+2026). Try highlighting just one of these dots… This is why you get interesting spacing when typing out strings of periods on Microsoft Word, it tries to autocorrect 3 periods in a row into ellipses thus slightly changing the spacing. merriam-webster.com/dicti…

The circle, the ellipse, the parabola and the hyperbola can all be created by taking different slices through a cone. andrews.edu/~calkins/math…

Kepler proved that orbits are ellipses more than 50 years before Newton did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kep…

While the perimeter of a circle is 2π times the radius, the perimeter of an ellipse has no closed-form expression mathsisfun.com/geometry/e…

The dwarf planet Pluto has 5 known moons, and because it orbits in an ellipse, there are times during it's year that it's closer to the sun than Neptune and it's ice thaws to form an atmosphere. space-facts.com/pluto/

The National Weather Service (USA) weather bulletins have odd formatting such as all capital letters and ellipses instead of commas because they still use a teletype compatible format. slate.com/articles/health…

While calculating the area of an ellipse is simple, there is no closed-form solution for calculating its perimeter numericana.com/answer/ell…

Ernesto Miranda's supreme court case led to the Miranda rights (“you have the right to remain silent...”). Miranda himself was later killed in a bar fight. His killer got away with it... because he chose to remain silent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir…

The St. Louis Arch is as tall as it is wide (192m). nps.gov/jeff/planyourvisi…

A recurring line from the "Love of Chair" soap opera parody from PBS' Electric Company, "What about Naomi?" was referring to Naomi Foner, a producer on the show, and mother of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lov…

Less than 30% of people strongly use visual thinking, 45% use both visual and words, and 25% think using only words. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis…

Green lake in Austria is a park you can walk round... untill spring when the snow melts and you have to swim round it. Oh,,, and it's as clear as glass! travel.nationalgeographic…

Today I learned that if you use an ellipsis at the end of a sentence, it has to be followed by a period.... reddit.com/r/worldnews/co…

In 1965 NASA Made the Same Mistake Gravity Did - Clooney Should've Accelerated AWAY From the ISS To Redezvous With It en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa…