65% of those suffering autism are left handed.

Moonstones are so named because they have a soft, luminous glow much like moonlight.

The world's largest wind generator is on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. The windmill has two blades 400 feet long on the top of a tower twenty stories high.

It takes 42 coffee beans to make an espresso.

In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics. He noticed that certain rays caused paper coated with barium platinocyanide to glow, even when the paper was in the next room. Baffled by the mystery, he called them "X Rays".

One trillion seconds ago, Neanderthal man (and woman) walked the earth. The 1,000,000,000,000 seconds since then add up to 31,709 years.

If each child gets a medium sized Lego set weighing 2lb, the sleigh must carry 321,000 tons not counting Santa, who is usually described as overweight. Conventional reindeer can pull 300lbs. Even if flying reindeer pull ten times that, the sleigh needs 214,200 reindeer, which means the sleigh now weighs four times as much as the QE2.

Kite Flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

Astronomers estimate that in the entire visible universe, all the stars of all the galaxies, there are altogether roughly 10 to the power of 80 fundamental particles - protons, neurons and electrons. So it would take 10 to the power of 35 universes like our own to provide one such particle to represent every possible unique human being.