Yeah I'm bored at work so here's some more...

Did you know:

Matchsticks were invented accidentally by John Walker, a chemist in 1827. He was trying to produce a burnable material for shotguns. His first match was a stick he was using to stir a mixture of chemicals. It burnt into flames when he scraped it against a stone floor to clean off the head.

The Red Sea is so salty you cannot sink- the salt keeps you floating.

Deserts have many poisonous snakes or scorpions, but few people are killed by them. More people die from mosquito bites than from all the other bites and stings put together.

A million years ago there were people only in Africa. Prehistoric animals such as Sabre-toothed tiger roamed, but no dinosaurs. They had already died out 64 million years before.

A camel with a sagging hump is a hungry camel.

People in the desert do not wash-up with water, they use sand to clean their dirty dishes.

Africa and Asia together account for just over half of all the land in the world.

Boston terriers were the first animals in America to be fitted with prescription contact lenses.