- Cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees.
- The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles).
- Greek mathematics developed from around the 7th century BC, producing many important theories thanks to great mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
- Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey.
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
- Per person France consumes the most cheese.
- Dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct.
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