- Tomatoes are considered both fruits and vegetablesu2014the answer depends on whom you ask.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- When hydrogen burns in the air water is formed.
- You take over 23,000 breaths everyday.
- While you sleep you can't smell anything, even really, really bad or potent smells.
- Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
- There are 2.5 million times more ants on earth than people (20 quadrillion of them).
- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- There are more fake than real flamingos.
- Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062).
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