- When you were born, for a tiny amount of time, you were the youngest person on planet Earth.
- Every year, millions of trees grow because squirrels forget where they buried their acorns.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse ended up getting married in real life.
- Every single year, the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulips to Canada to thank them for their help in World War 2.
- Smallpox is completely extinct as a disease.
- Scotland’s national animal is the Unicorn.
- An octopus likes shiny objects, and will often start a collection of them.
- The gender neutral slang term for a niece or nephew is “nibling.”
- “Old book smell” has been identified as a mix of grass and vanilla.
- Volvo/Vattenfall invented the life-saving three-point seatbelt, and instead of capitalising on it, gave the patent away so that other car manufacturers could use it to save lives.
- An average cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds.
- When rabbits get really excited and start to jump around, it’s called a binky.
- The last time all living humans were on earth at the same time was November 2nd, 2000. Ever since then, the International Space Station has been constantly manned.
- The Space Station uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the windows are covered at night hours to give the impression of darkness because the station experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets per day.