The word ‘suffragette’ started out as an insult coined by the Daily Mail.

In 1986, Michael Foot’s appointment as chair of a disarmament committee prompted The Times headline: ‘Foot Heads Arms Body.’ The body of the sea otter has a pouch across the front where it keeps rocks to break open shellfish.

23 Nobel Prizes for Medicine have been won as a result of research on guinea pigs.

The human brain has the same percentage of fat as clotted cream.

Nobody knows how big Pluto is.

‘The Just Missed It Club’ was for people who almost sailed on the Titanic. Two weeks after it sank, it had 118,337 members.

Alan Shepard took a peanut to the Moon. When he brought it back, Steve McQueen tried to eat it.

Astronauts’ hearts become rounder in space.

The first coin minted in the US bore the slogan ‘Mind Your Business’.

‘Email’ is a 16th-century word meaning ‘enamel’.

A ‘googolplex’ is a number so vast it can’t be written down: there’s not enough room in the universe for all the zeros.

The International Space Station travels at five miles a second.