Friday, 29 November 2013

Fun Fact Friday (#17)






Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.




This week’s five facts:
 
1. Did you know that cat’s urine glows under a black light.
 
2. Slugs have 4 noses.
 
3. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
 
4.  It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
 
5.  Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Friday, 22 November 2013

Fun Fact Friday (#16)


Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.


This week’s five facts:

1.  A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.

2.  The “dot” over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks – otherwise it will digest itself.

4. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”

5. The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

Friday, 15 November 2013

Fun Fact Friday (#15)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.
This week’s five facts:
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Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

This week’s five facts:
 
1. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

2. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

3. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

4. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

5. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Friday, 8 November 2013

Fun Fact Friday (#14)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do your own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.
This week’s five facts:

1. The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen that is used by the human body.

2. Adult lungs have a surface area of about 70 metres squared. 

3.Our tongue prints are completely unique.

4. Depending on how old you are, it's quite likely that you have eyelash mites. These creatures like to like live off old skin cells and sebum.

5. Every day the average person loses between 60 and 100 strands of hair.

Friday, 1 November 2013

Fun Fact Friday (#13)


Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I'm Booked! Isn't it very fitting that the 13th Fun Fact Friday is on the day after Halloween... spooky. I hope you've all had a frightfully sweet filled week.

Now onto this weeks freaky(ish) facts...

1. Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween

2. The owl is a popular Halloween image. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches, and to hear an owl's call meant someone was about to die.

3. The Irish carved Turnips and put coals or small candles inside. They were placed outside their homes on All Hallow's Eve to ward off evil spirits. They were also known to use potatoes and Rutabagas.

4. The word “witch” comes from the Old English wicce, meaning “wise woman.”

5. The famous magician Harry Houdini died in 1926 on Halloween night as a result of appendicitis brought on by three stomach punches.



Happy Halloween!
meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, - See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/#sthash.bqyDA40C.dpuf
is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.
This week’s five facts:
- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/#sthash.bqyDA40C.dpuf