- Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you'll soon fall in love.
- 99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
- Most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old.
- 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.
- Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
- The typewriter was invented in 1829.
- A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long.
- Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.
- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
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