- The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- It's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.
- There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant's trunk.
- Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.
- The typewriter was invented in 1829.
- A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
- 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.
- Even with wings, humans would be unable to fly.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- The 3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English.
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