Cleopatra's Needle, which is now located at Central Park in New York was once part of a sundial.
In culinary lingo, six pinches are equal to a fist full.
If a book of average size would contain all of the insect’s names, it would have about 6.000 pages, as our planet has more than 900.000 known species.
Honey is the only food that will never spoil.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland. The reason for the prohibition was the fact that Donald Duck does not wear pants.
Scientists claim that every 14 days one language dies. By the end of the 21st century, it is likely that almost half of the approximately 7.000 languages will disappear.
