- The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks.
- Greek mathematics developed from around the 7th century BC, producing many important theories thanks to great mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
- It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing.
- Per person France consumes the most cheese.
- There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
- 72% of people eavesdrop.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- An ostrich can outrun a horse.
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