New Zealand was the first country to give voting rights to women.
The world’s first McDonald’s was opened in the city of Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
The opposite of ambidextrous is ambisinistrous, which means no good with either hand.
Ostrich have two kneecaps per knee.
In Japan, ‘handsome weeping’ men can be hired to watch romantic movies with.
Worldwide, around 7000 apple species are grown.
Frogs communicate with each other through songs.
The screwdriver was invented a hundred years before the screw.
The Bank of America was originally called the Bank of Italy.
Pigeons can tell the difference between paintings by impressionist Monet and cubist Picasso.
Lightning strikes the Earth 8.6 million times a day.
If cows are fed strawberries, their milk will get a strawberry flavour.
Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda was the original name for 7 Up.
In Singapore, buying, selling and spitting chewing gum is illegal.
Oranges and lemons smell different due to chemically identical molecules.
Temperature determines the sex of some species including turtles.
A greeting card that can play ‘Happy Birthday’ has more computing power than existed in the whole world in 1950.
The world has enough diamonds to give a cupful to each person on the planet.
Moon dust smells like gun powder.
