The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro was entered in to the Guinness Book of Records as the target of 683 assassination attempts!
Playing chess without looking at the board, was known in Persia and India back in VIII century.
If a book of average size would contain all of the insect’s names, it would have about 6.000 pages, as our planet has more than 900.000 known species.
The weight of a diamond is measured in carats, and one carat is 0.2 grams. The heaviest diamond that has ever been found to this date is weighed 621 grams or 3105 carats.
The hippo can run faster than a man.
Dried bananas have four times more nutrition than fresh ones.