- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet.
- There are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms.
- The average woman will consume over 2.7kg (6 pounds) of lipstick in their lifetime.
- The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962.
- A group of foxes is called a skulk.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- The typewriter was invented in 1829.
- A 'googolplex' is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can't be written because there literally isn't enough room in the entire universe to fit it in!.
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