- Some cats are allergic to humans.
- The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity.
- Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second.
- Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- The longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'.
- The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall.
- 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.
- Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.
- Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all all invented by women.
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