- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- 40% of Amsterdam commuters get to work by bicycle.
- New York was once called New Amsterdam.
- The opposite sides of a die always adds up to 7.
- Cabbage is 91% water.
- Mountain lions can whistle.
- Minus 40C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40F.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month.
- A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.
- One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.
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