- A woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice.
- 13 people die every year from vending machines.
- There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- Spiders have transparent blood.
- The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old.
- Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow.
- 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.
- The average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches.
- The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
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