You already know the basics: Climate change is a real and imminent threat, fracking has more to it than meets the eye and Mother Nature will never cease to amaze us. But if you really want to impress people by your knowledge, here are some exceptional facts about all that surrounds us, thanks to the cleverly titled book "1,227 Quite Interesting Facts to Knock Your Socks Off"

 

• The amount of water on Earth is constant, and continually recycled over time: some of the water you drink will have passed through a dinosaur.

• 40 percent of all bottled water sold in the world is bottled tap water.

• 27,000 trees are felled each day for toilet paper.

• Paper can be recycled only six times. After that, the fibers are too weak to hold together.

• There is no known scientific way of predicting earthquakes.