- It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean.
- Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country.
- Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
- The word utopia u2013 an ideal place u2013 ironically comes from a Greek word meaning u201cno place.u201d.
- Tokyo was once known as Edo.
- Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F).
- Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.
- Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely).
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