- Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.
- Jamaica has 120 rivers.
- Tomatoes are considered both fruits and vegetablesu2014the answer depends on whom you ask.
- The human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels.
- 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of infinitesimal calculus.
- The world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years.
- Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
- Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.
- Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population.
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