• At the 1st World Cup championship in Uruguay in 1930, the soccer balls that were used were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs has been tasted by archeologists and found edible.
• The largest living thing on the face of this Earth is an underground mushroom in Oregon. It measures three and a half miles in diameter.
• The biggest plane in the world is the six-engine Antonov AN-225 transport airplane. It can carry an aircraft on its back and cargo inside.
• Did you ever notice, that the name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
• The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
• Colgate faced big obstacles in marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. That’s because when translated Colgate means ‘go hang yourself’.
• All the planets in our solar system rotate anti-clockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• Mercury is the fastest planet. It zooms around the Sun in just 88 days, at an incredible 107,000mph, faster than any space rocket.
• Amazing! Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun, but its neighbour Venus is even hotter, because it has clouds to trap in the heat.
