One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian calendar.
A storm officially becomes a hurricane when cyclone winds reach 119 km/h (74 mph).
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (Gatiep will use it as follows: “Dous spare ribs are lekka nê?)