New parklands are being created in the Lower
Lea Valley for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. We are celebrating fantastic and surprising things in life with this open invitation to contribute your knowledge to the Park.
Use this website to donate a fact about anything, whether expert or everyday and it could be
selected for use on one of the many benches
in the Park to create a moment of curiosity for generations of future visitors.
Lepidopterology
Antarctica is the only continent where no butterflies or moths have been found.
Nephology
The water droplets in a typical cumulus cloud have a combined weight of 200,000 kg.
Futurology
In a BBC radio interview on 19 November, 1932 HG Wells called for the establishment of ‘Departments and Professors of Foresight’.
Gerontology
Most cells in the human body are less than 10 years old.
Balneology
In Roman times the bath itself was called balneum. Later, the more complex public baths were called Balneae, and to the very largest the name Thermae was finally given.
Geology
The earth’s crust is estimated at around 30 km thick under the UK.
Cosmology
Venus is the only planet in the solar system which rotates on its axis from east to west, all others rotate west to east.
Oology
The eggs of the flightless Great Elephant Bird were — at around 300 times the size of a hen’s egg — the biggest of any creature including dinosaurs.
Physiology
Usain Bolt’s average ground speed for his record 2008 100m sprint was 37.58 km/h.
Escapology
Nicholas Owen is known as the Patron saint of illusionists because he escaped from the Tower of London.
Batology
Blackberries are not a true berry but aggregate fruits composed of seeds surrounded by fleshy shells called drupelets.
Anthropology
Anthropologists know of no human society whose children don’t play hide and seek.
Vexillology
The rings in the Olympic flag are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The colours were chosen as at least one of them appears on the flag of every country in the world.