If we could jump as a grasshopper in proportion to our size, we would be able to leap from the pavement on to the roof of an eight-storeyed building.
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
Birds are not sensitive to capsaicin found in chillies so they are unaffected by spicy things.
An average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
With a population of 10 million and more, Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, is the largest city in Africa. And Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa.
The patron saint of wine, Saint Vincent, never touched a drop of alcohol all his life.
The red squirrel carries the most fleas, more than 13,000 being removed from one animal.
Babies crawl about 200m a day.
Seaweed is used to thicken ice-cream.
Red heads require more dosage of anaesthesia than normal coloured hair.
