- A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century.
- A 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial.
- Fresh cranberries can be bounced like a rubber ball.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
- The first place in the world to allow women to vote New Zealand.
- A male baboon can kill a leopard.
- Dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas.
- Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames).
- Toads only eat moving prey.
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