Particularly liked these ones:
Sounds like a team challenge...If all the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles, more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth's equator.
The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
Sounds like some people I've met...When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered.
Is that all?Train passengers in the UK waited a total of 11.5m minutes in 2004 for delayed services.
One for me, Thomas and the other pictured nonathletes...The name Lego came from two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It also means "I put together" in Latin.
Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.
You have some way to go to top that, DerryLad!Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a month, according to research carried out by University of California.
Cool bookThe Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold one copy every minute since its 1969 publication.
Any junior spirits' parents want to try this one out?One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.
Each successive monarch faces in a different direction on British coins.