- Gaelic for toilet is Taigh-beag (pronounced tie bake), which literally means 'small house'
- Bluetooth technology is named after a 10th century Danish king, King Harald Gormsson whose dead tooth was a dark blue/grey color, and earned him the nickname "Bluetooth."
- A petard is a small bomb for blowing doors or breaching walls etc. Comes from the latin pedere meaning to Fart.
- In Scots Gaelic, a Cù is actually a dog!
- Hanlon’s razor is an eponymous adage named after Robert J. Hanlon that states: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
- Cows are fed magnets to capture metal that they eat by mistake!
- Illumination is measured in NITS. 1 NIT = 1 Candela per Square Meter (See more)
- Jedism is the second most popular religion in New Zealand
- 90% of all the physicists who have ever lived, are alive today
