The Fibonacci numbers...

If you hear a Brit ask for a "99", they are ordering a special kind of ice cream. Usually sold from ice-cream vans, they should be made with soft, rather than scooped, ice cream, into which a chocolate Flake bar is inserted, typically at a 45-degree angle. (In 1930 Cadbury started producing a smaller version […]

Insects outnumber humans 200 million to one! (Insects make up more than half of all living things on Earth, There are about 900,000 known insect species, three times as many as all other animal species together, and thousands of new ones are discovered each year. Scratch scratch.)

The sale of personalised licence plates by HM Government has raised £1.2bn to date. (Short plates that spell out names are the most popular.)

In the American numbering system, a million has six zeros, a billion has nine zeros, a trillion has 12 zeros and after that? Quadrillion: 15 zerosQuintillion: 18 zerosSextillion: 21 zerosSeptillion: 24 zeros

The most number of goals scored in the World Cup tournament was in 1998 when a total of 171 goals were scored. (Note - That record still stands as only 145 goals were scored in the 2010 World Cup.)