- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
- A violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood.
- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- Baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September.
- 'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.
- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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