It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
In Africa poachers kill about a hundred elephants every day.
Cleopatra's Needle, which is now located at Central Park in New York was once part of a sundial.
In the human body there is so much phosphorus you could produce around 750,000 matches.
In one day the heart beats around 100.800 times. It pumps through the blood vessels as much blood as it would take to fill about 170 average bathtubs.
In India for Christmas, a small number of Christians are decorating banana trees.