- It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14)..
- The average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime.
- The Titanic was built in Belfast.
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