1. In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That’s where the phrase, “goodnight, sleep tight” came from.

2. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” uses every letter in the alphabet.

3. The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

4. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

5. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

6. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

7. Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon.

8. If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.

9. Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death. (Your mum told you that when you were 5, I know)

10. Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

11. Guinness Book Of Records holds the record for being the book most stolen from Public Libraries.

12. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

13. Apple, not caffeine, is more efficient at waking you up in the morning. (not the company, you bloody engineer, the FRUIT!!!!!!!!)

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. (This law excludes Engineers)