- Household dust is made of dead skin cells.
- Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).
- If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years.
- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
- It takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie.
- It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing.
- Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.
- Men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women.
- Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
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