A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
140
The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
21
There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
25
Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
32
Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
124
Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
745