* The transport arrangements for the battle of Khartoum were undertaken by the travel firm Thomas Cook Ltd.
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* Blind people who have been blind from birth cannot dream sights but they dreams sounds instead.
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* The 4th Earl of Salisbury who was the first European to use cannon in battle in 1428, was also the first soldier to be killed by a cannon in a European Battle.
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* Most of Beethoven's well known music was composed after he had become deaf.
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* The world's most popular hobby is stamp collecting.
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* There is a promontory in the Gulf Guinea called "The Land Nearest Nowhere". It is the spot nearest to the point where the line of zero latitude meets the line of zero longitude at zero altitude.
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* Piano keys are generally made from the wood of the Hornbeam.
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* The sun burns 240,000,000 tonnes of hydrogen dust every minute.
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* The hair spring of a watch was originally a pig's hair.
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* There is a lake on the Indonesian island of Java that blows bubbles into the air.
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* The best known English writer William Shakespeare and the best known Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, died on the same day, 23 April, 1616.
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* The 16th century French astrologer Nostradamus predicted the French Revolution, the rise of Fascist leaders like Hitler and Mussolini and the destruction of cities from the air.
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* The sphinx was carved from one piece of stone.
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* Some of the cells in our body are so small that 200,000 of them could fit onto the head of a pin.
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* Research into the mental powers of goldfish shows that they remember better in cold water than in warm water.
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* Cattle can be identified by their nose-prints just as men can be identified by their finger-prints.
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* Only 50 Kms beneath the earth's surface the temperature reaches the melting point of rocks.
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* Bears climb telegraph poles in search of honey. The humming of the wires confuse them into thinking that there are bee hives on top of the poles.
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* Iceberg float because they are made of fresh water which is less dense than sea water.
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* The tallest iceberg ever measured was 168m high. It was seen in 1958 off Greenland and was as tall as a 50-storey skyscraper.
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* About one - third of our lives are spent sleeping but very little is really known about it.
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* Diamonds are 180 times harder than Emeralds.
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* Diamond melts at 6900 degree centigrade, which is two and a half times the temperature needed to melt steel.
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Diamonds come from the rock called Kimberlite. About 200 tonnes of kimberlite are mined for every carat of polished diamond.
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