- Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- You have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple).
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
- The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
- The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand.
- Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
- Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing.
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