- It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa.
- It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl.
- It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.
- Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans which go into the production of chocolate.
- The opposite sides of a die always adds up to 7.
- One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
- Sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet).
- The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
- 'orology' is the study of mountains.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
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