Sunday’s 20 Interesting Facts. How many do you know?
- Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile
- A 75 year old person will have slept approximately 23 years
- Sharks can live up to 100 years
- Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue more than any colour
- The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom
- The Koala’s fingerprints are so similar to that of humans that only a trained eye can tell the difference.
- It is estimated that there are 148,574,965.09 insects to each human being on the planet
- It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with
- Cats are believed to be left ‘pawed’ but they are actually ambidextrous
- You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
- Bamboo can grow up to 3 feet in 24 hours
- Bill Clinton sent just 2 emails as president
- Slamming your car door (or making a loud noise) between 11:00pm and 06:00 is against the law in Switzerland
- In England, in the 1880’s, “Pants” was considered a dirty word
- Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung
- In Bangladesh, India, students 15 years of age and over can be jailed for cheating on their exams
- More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
- Light bulb inventor, Thomas Edison, was afraid of the dark
- The state of Florida is bigger than the whole of England
- The average person has over 1,500 dreams a year
1 Comment
Very interesting. I’ll never wear blue on holiday again if it means no insect bites. I’m going to buy celery as snacks in future, and I wonder what citizens in the 1800’s would think of our dirty words now! Oh, those were the days…Oh, and if I ever move abroad, I may move to Switzerland – After living on this estate, the idea is very appealing! :O)