- Brontology is the study of thunder.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
- Pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians.
- Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe.
- The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913.
- Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.
- The human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels.
- Whales can't swim backwards.
- When water freezes it expans by 9%.
- There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies.
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