Friday 29 August 2014

Fun Fact Friday (#32)







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 person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste until it is mixed with saliva.

2.  If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.

3.  Every person has a unique tongue print.

4. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself

5. Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.

Friday 22 August 2014

Fun Fact Friday (#31)

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. Chocolate milk was invented in Ireland

2. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

3. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months. 

4. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue. 

5. Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.

Friday 15 August 2014

Fun Fact Friday (#30)


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. 23 million of Twitter's active users are actually bots.

2. Tap water has a shelf-life of 6 months, after which chlorine dissipates and bacteria starts to grow.

3. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

4. If you travel across Russia, you will cross seven time zones.

5. There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.
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.


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Friday 8 August 2014

Fun Fact Friday (#29)

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.  Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand

2.  Owls are one of the only birds who can see the colour blue

3.  Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older

4.  The average lifespan of an eyelash is five months

5.  A spider has transparent blood


Friday 1 August 2014

Fun Fact Friday (#28)

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:
- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/#sthash.1jNwjRCw.dpuf
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.  15 fictional characters have their own star on the Hollywood walk of fame.

2.  The Truman Syndrome is a condition in which patients believe that they're living in a reality TV show.

3.  A moment was a medieval unit of time. One hour had 40 moments.

4.  African elephants have the best smell in the animal kingdom.

5.  There are more English words beginning with the letter "s" than with any other letter.