- There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people).
- Ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine.
- A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
- The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years.
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- Rain contains vitamin B12.
- Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970.
- When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
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