- Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.
- Love carrots? Don't eat too many or you will turn orange.
- At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
- The surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared.
- Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
- There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance.
- Every year over 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.
- A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.
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