- Eighty-two million people play Farmville.
- The name "scrumpy" comes from a word meaning small and shrivelled.
- Rudyard Kipling turned down the Order of Merit - twice.
- In The Wizard of Oz, Toto was played by a dog called Terry.
- Pine that is grown in a cold climate has greater durability.
- The Bill began life as a one-off drama called Woodentop.
- The world's most complex mathematical problem is called the Poincare Conjecture.
- There are only about 10 Pagani Zonda S supercars produced each year.
- Teachers sometimes get lavish gifts from their pupils like a Tiffany bracelet.
- Over 260 species of marine wildlife become entangled in litter or mistake it for food.
(Borrowed from the BBC)