Did you know?

It’s National Pi Day in the USA today, so we thought we’d get nerdy about all the things we love about pi.

So, it’s your party trick to recite pi to 15 places. But, we bet you didn’t know the following pi-related bits of triv…

No one knows for sure, but archeologists think the Egyptians understood pi. The proportions of the Great Pyramid of Giza hint at it.

It’s thought that the oldest pie recipe is more than 2,000 years old. A recipe for rye-crusted goats’ cheese and honey pie is thought to have been created by the Roman equivalent of Gordon Ramsay.

186 million pies are sold in American supermarkets every year.

The novel The Life of Pi was nominated for 14 Academy Awards at the 85th Oscars ceremony.

The largest pumpkin pie ever made was created by the New Breman Giant Pumpkin Growers, weighed 1,679 kilograms, and had a 6-metre diametre.

More than 1,000 custard pies are thrown as weapons in the movie Bugsy Malone.

The world’ largest cream pie fight took place in Dallas in 2012. 714 people took part.