- The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953.
- The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime.
- The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
- Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
- Much of the work done by Leibniz and Newton is based on theories by French philosopher Rene Descartes. As well as his many contributions to philosophy, Descartes also had a huge impact on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more.
- People who work at night tend to weigh more.
- A group of geese is called a gaggle.
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- The movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks.
- The surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared.
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