A fresh egg will sink in water but a stale one won't.
To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit four million flowers.
The slowest fish is a sea horse which moves at 0.01mph.
Mel Blanc, who provided the voice for Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots.
Humans only use 10 per cent of our brains.
Diet Coke was invented in 1982.
African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
There are more than 2,700 languages spoken in the world.
There are more than 2,700 languages spoken in the world.
Scientists can tell how old a tree is by counting the number of rings in the bark.
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