- If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.
- You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.
- 53% of women don't leave home without makeup on.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles).
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws.
- The average age at which America's presidents have taken office is 54.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
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