- The average pool cue is 1.4m (4.75ft) long.
- It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl.
- Not a single number has the letter "b" in it until you reach a billion.
- Lion's can't roar until the age of 2.
- Thin skinned lemons are the juiciest.
- M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
- Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator).
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
- More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined.
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