Grand piano consists of about 12.000 parts.
Thanks to blinking, an awake man will spend 30 minutes with his eyes closed.
People who spend the most time in front of television sets are Japanese. They spend on average 9 hours in front of the TV.
Every year thousands of new oak trees grow in the world just because squirrels cannot remember where they hide their acorns.
The temperature of a raindrop is on average lower than the air temperature by about 3 degrees Celsius.
The first woman ambassador was Russia's Aleksandra Kollontai (1872-1952) who was elected in 1923 to be the Soviet ambassador to Norway.
