- Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.
- Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.
- A jellyfish is 95% water.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- The alchemy symbol for water is an inverted triangle, resembling a cup or glass.
- All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
- The hottest chile in the world is the habanero.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
- Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.
- Acrophobia is the fear of heights.
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