- An elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.
- Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors.
- Household dust is made of dead skin cells.
- The wristwatch was invented in 1904.
- The number 1 reason why people purchase a mobile phone is for safety.
- Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- A flea can jump 350 times its body length.
- Spain's largest source of income is from tourism.
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
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