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The planet Uranus was only discovered 215 years ago, by Sir William Herschel on 13 March 1781.
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The plant lives in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.
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The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
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The poet Coleridge drank about 2 litres of laudanum (tincture of opium) each week at the height of his addiction.
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The Polynesian country of Niue is a 170 square kilometre limestone rock emerging 60 metres from the Pacific.
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The popular name for the giant sequoia tree is Redwood.
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The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.
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The power of the first hydrogen bomb tested in 1952 was equal to the combined power of all the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan in World War Two - including the atomic ones.
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The pressure at the Earths inner core is 3 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure.
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The producers of the movie Gone With The Wind were fined 5,000 dollars for allowing the word “damn“ to be heard within the movie‘s dialog.
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