- Every minute about a billion tons of water falls on Earth.
- A female ferret is called a jill.
- The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907.
- Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A Biedenharn.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550).
- New York's Central Park was opened in 1876.
- Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.
- The largest living organism in the world is a fungus. It is in Oregon, covering 2,200 acres and is still growing.
- 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.
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