- All insects have 6 legs.
- England's first great industry was wool.
- Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.
- If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.
- The longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'.
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- Birds can sleep with one eye open.
- Wind doesn't make a sound until it blows against an object.
- In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
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