Sunday’s 20 Interesting Facts. How many do you know?

1.  Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
2. A 75 year old person will have slept approximately 23 years
3. Sharks can live up to 100 years
4. Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue more than any colour 
5. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom
6.  The Koala’s fingerprints are so similar to that of humans that only a trained eye can tell the difference.
7. It is estimated that there are 148,574,965.09 insects to each  human being on the planet
8. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with
9. Cats are believed to be left ‘pawed’ but they are actually ambidextrous
10. You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
11. Bamboo can grow up to 3 feet in 24 hours
12. Bill Clinton sent just 2 emails as president
13.  Slamming your car door (or making a loud noise) between 11:00pm and 06:00 is against the law in Switzerland
14.  In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word
15. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung
16. In Bangladesh, India,  students 15 years of age and over can be jailed for cheating on their exams
17. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
18. Light bulb inventor, Thomas Edison, was afraid of the dark
19. The state of Florida is bigger than the whole of England
20. The average person has over 1,500 dreams a year