Ants don't sleep.

The first kind of pencil was a bunch of graphite sticks held together by string.

"a man a plan a canal panama" spelled backwards is still "a man a plan a canal panama".

The first bicycle was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais it didn't have any pedals - people walked it along.

Joseph Rechendorfer was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil to rub out mistakes.

Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of butterflies.

A slug has four noses.

An attempt at the domino setting up record in New York failed when a TV camera man accidentally set off the tumbling process.

The first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J. G. Ingram Company in London, England in 1847.

The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

Every year some 50 million cars are added to the world's roads.

Car making is now the largest manufacturing industry in the world. 

A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous (like spit) to make a see-through bag all around it's body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean.

Many people in parts of China eat insects including bean worms, scorpions, and locusts.

Honey is sometimes used for antifreeze mixtures and in the centre of golf balls.

Superman The Escape rollercoaster, located in California at Six Flags Magic Mountain, goes from 0 to 100 miles per hour in only 7 seconds.

Goat meat contains up to 45 percent less saturated fat than chicken meat.

A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon. 

Four billion pounds of watermelon were grown in the United States in 1999.

A zebra is white with black stripes.