- The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
- The softest known mineral is talc.
- On average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips.
- Paper originated from China.
- Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten.
- That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become).
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.
- 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
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