Facts

If you ate too many carrots, you’d turn orange.

Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

Over 4 million cars in Brazil are now running on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.

The Persian Gulf is the warmest sea. In the summer its temperature reaches 35.6 degrees centigrade.

You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day.

Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother’s womb. The survivor is born.

From a distance, Earth would be the brightest of the 9 planets. This is because sunlight is reflected by the planet’s water.

Longest officially recognized place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 85 letters. It’s the name for a hill, 305 metres (1,000 ft) high, close to Porangahau, New Zealand.