- If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.
- 9% of people skip breakfast daily.
- Cats can hear ultrasound.
- There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world.
- The compass and straight edge were powerful tools in the advancement of geometry, allowing the construction of various lengths, angles and geometric shapes.
- Over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
- Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity.
- The word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards.
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