- If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
- The expression to 'knuckle down' originated from playing marbles (players used to put their knuckles to the ground for their best shots).
- Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.
- Sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
- Out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man.
- The average mature oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn.
- Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
- One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.
- The average person goes to the toilet 6 times a day.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
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