- 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.
- Australia has the largest sheep population.
- Russia and the United States of America are less than 3 miles apart.
- Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe.
- There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth.
- The first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph).
- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
- One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
- There are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building.
- Snakes can't blink.
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