- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- When you look at a bright sky and see white dots, you are looking at your blood. Those are white blood cells.
- Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.
- You might have heard the word 'infinity' before or seen its symbol that looks like the number 8 placed on its side. Infinity means a limitless quantity or something that goes on forever. While it's not really a number like 1, 2 or 3, infinity is often used in math as part of equations and formulas.
- Your blood is 6 times thicker than water.
- 20% of China's plants are used in medicine.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- A 'googolplex' is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can't be written because there literally isn't enough room in the entire universe to fit it in!.
- The film 'Mary Poppins' was filmed entirely indoors.
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