-
On average a four year old asks 437 questions a day (many of them just a simply..."why"!).
-
It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow (go on, try it ... if you can you're quite unusual!).
-
Jack is the most common name in children's nursery rhymes.
- The average lead pencil can draw a line almost 35 miles in length!
-
Russia has more cinemas than any other country in the world.
-
To see a rainbow you have to have your back to the sun.
-
The names of the world's continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
-
A zebra is white with black stripes, not black with white stripes.
-
The average person can live for 11 days without water.
-
Coca-Cola was originally green.
-
Pigs can get sunburn.
-
Footprints left by astronauts on the moon will last over 10 million years (as there is no atmosphere).
-
Venus is the only planet in our Solar System that rotates clockwise.
-
Ants do not sleep.
-
It's impossible to fold any normal piece of paper more than 7 times (try it!).
- The lion costume in the film The Wizard of Oz was actually made out of real lion skin.
- Fathers usually determine the height to their child, and mothers the weight.
- The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall in Napoleon’s bedroom.
- "Barbie Millicent Roberts" is Barbie's full name.
- The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth's surface.
-
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Italy at that time for women to shave them off.
-
Walt Disney, the creator or Mickey Mouse, was actually afraid of mice!
-
The total combined weight of all of the ants in the world is more than that of all of the humans!
-
The largest single living thing on the face of the Earth lives in Oregon, USA and measures three and a half miles in diameter (............. it's an underground mushroom!).
-
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
