Asteroid 1,227 is called Geranium.
The ozone layer smells faintly of geraniums.
The centre of the galaxy tastes like raspberries.
The universe is shaped like a vuvuzela.
Light travels 18 million times faster than rain.
The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth’s land surface.
The name of the first human being in Norse mythology is Ask.
Octopuses have three hearts.
Three of Fidel Castro’s sons, Alexis, Alexander and Alejandro, are named after Alexander the Great.
The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men In A Boat are: ‘There were four of us.’
40% of the human race did not survive beyond its 1st birthday.
One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed.
The human heart pumps enough blood in a lifetime to fill three supertankers.The word ‘time’ is the most commonly used noun in English.
Between 1838 and 1960, more than half the photos taken were of babies.
The words written on Twitter every day would fill a 10-million-page book.
In 2008, a man in Ohio was arrested for having sex with a picnic table.
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.
The world’s population spends 500,000 hours a day typing Internet security codes.
The first book ever printed in Oxford had a misprint on the first page: they got the date wrong.
For 100 years, the flag of the tropical Turks and Caicos Islands in the West Indies mistakenly featured an igloo.