- New York was once called New Amsterdam.
- The wristwatch was invented in 1904.
- The Fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ....
- In Africa more people are killed by crocodiles than lions.
- Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
- Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain.
- The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
- It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
- The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
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