- John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars.
- The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.
- One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
- 2 million hydrogen atoms would be required to cover a full stop (.).
- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
- Kangaroos can not walk backwards.
- When a member of a whale group is sick or injured, other whales will push it up to the surface of the water to help it breathe.
- Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal.
- 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
- If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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