Did you know that when you hard boil eggs, if you add a little vinegar to the boiling water it will prevent your eggs from cracking.

If you are stung by a jellyfish, you can put some vinegar on the affected area to relieve the pain.

You can use undiluted vinegar to help heal a sunburn.

If you have dandruff and you are sick and tired of it and nothing has worked for you, you can wash your hair and scalp with a few tsp’s of vinegar and then use regular shampoo and after a few days your dandruff will be gone.

There are about a billion bicycles in the world, twice as many as motorcars. Almost 400 million bicycles are in China.

A diamond is 58 times harder than the next hardest mineral on earth, corundum, from which rubies and sapphires are formed. It was only during the 15th century that it was discovered that the only way to cut diamonds was with other diamonds. Yet, diamonds are brittle. If you hit one hard with a hammer, it will shatter.

Credit was first used in Assyria, Babylon and Egypt 3000 years ago. The bill of exchange - the forerunner of banknotes - was established in the 14th century.

The only place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, never flies half-mast and does not get saluted, is the moon.