- Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
- Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961.
- A car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
- Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.
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