- 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'.
- Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal.
- An average cumulus cloud weighs more than 70 adult T-Rexes.
- Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F).
- The most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'.
- Toads only eat moving prey.
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- Elephants can smell water from miles away.
- The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.
- The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old.
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