• Similarly, if you mix half a liter of alcohol and half a liter of water, the total volume of liquid is less than one liter.

• There is about 1/2 lb or 250g of salt (NaCl) in the average adult human body.

• A pure element takes many forms. For example, diamond and graphite both are forms of pure carbon.

• Alkalis turn your hands into soap.

• North Korea and Cuba are the only places that can’t buy Coca-Cola.

• Many radioactive elements actually glow in the dark.

• The chemical name of water (H2O) is dihydrogen monoxide.

• Lightning strikes produce Ozone, hence the characteristic smell after lightning storms.

• The only two non silvery metals are gold and copper.

• Water expands when freezes, unlike other substances.

• Glass is actually a liquid, it just flows very, very slowly.

• More people visit France than any other country.

• There are more twins now than ever before.

• The hottest chili pepper in the world is so hot it could kill you.

• Most of the chemical compounds are white in colour.

• The only solid elements that assume liquid form at room temperature are bromine and mercury.

• You can melt gallium by holding a lump in the warmth of your hand.

• From the carbon in your body, you can make almost 10,000 pencils.

• The most common to be found in the body are hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, calcium, nitrogen, and phosphorus.

• After oxygen, Carbon is the most common element in the body.

• The entire world’s population could fit inside Los Angeles.

• Every hydrogen atom in your body is likely 13.5 billion years old because they were created at the birth of the universe.