- The longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'.
- Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds.
- The word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box.
- Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550).
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes..
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