- Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F).
- Domestic cats dislike citrus scents.
- A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- Not a single number has the letter "b" in it until you reach a billion.
- The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252.
- Dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk.
- Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.
- Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
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