Fact No.336

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Fact No.335

Being right-handed can prolong your life.

Fact No.334

On a pound for pound basis babies are stronger than oxen.

Fact No.333

There are 13 different forms of ice.

Fact No.332

The human brain contains 100 billion brain cells, or neurons.

Fact No.331

The 3 hands on a clock are never all exaclty 120 degrees away from each other.

Fact No.330

The UK is not a Kingdom as thought by many. ER has no law making powers and has no rights to govern the UK, therefore the UK is not a kingdom.

Fact No.329

You've never actually touched anything.

Fact No.328

President John F. Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

Fact No.327

Less than 5% of The Universe is made up of normal matter. The rest is 70% dark matter, and 25% dark energy.

Fact No.326

Imagine that you are combing a tennis ball which is hairy rather than fluffy. You attempt to comb it so that all the hairs are lying flat on the surface and so that they change direction smoothly over the whole surface, but the Hairy Ball Theorem says that you will fail.

Since the earth is a ball, and the wind at any point has a direction, as if the air were being combed over the Earth's surface, it follows that there is always a cyclone somewhere.

Fact No.325

Unlike any other element, helium does not solidify.

Fact No.324

Some migratory birds have a "magnetic compass" in their body (a sense called Magnetoreception) to help them navigate using Earth's magnetic field.

Fact No.323

Becuase of Saturn's density you could float it in a glass of water.

Fact No.322

The Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight

Fact No.321

In one hour more sunlight falls on the earth than what is used for energy by the entire population in one year.

Fact No.320

Koala bears, aren't actually bears at all, they are marsupials.

Fact No.319

LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.

Fact No.318

Lasers could be used to beam electricity to power spacecraft.

Fact No.317

Handling rough bricks means that brick layers fingerprints are often worn away.

Fact No.316

Languages that treat certain colours as distinct, such as blue and green, train our brains to exaggerate the difference between them.

Fact No.315

2 hours is how long it would take to fly from London to Tokyo in a new hypersonic jet.

Fact No.314

Today is International Literacy Day.

Fact No.313

Deer antlers are inspiring a new method of attaching artifical limbs.

Fact No.312

Rainbows would trace a complete circle if the rain were illuminated from a light source below your viewpoint.

Fact No.311

Most dinosaur bones are not discovered by palaeontologists, but by ordinary folk completely by chance.

Fact No.310

It would take 38 days for the entire world to become zombies in a zombie apocalypse.

Fact No.309

Today is Charlie Sheen's brithday.

Fact No.308

There are 195 countries in the world today.

Fact No.307

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.