- A car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer..
- There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people).
- Hippopotamuses are born under water.
- Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.
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