Friday 31 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#76)




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. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists.

2. Each day, up to 4 billion meteoroids fall to Earth.

3. An average adult's skin spans 21 square feet (2 m2) and weighs 9 pounds (4 kg).

4. A grizzly bear has to eat almost 20,000 calories a day.

5.  The scientific name of the llama is "lama glama."

Friday 24 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#75)


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. 2% of people have armpits that never smell because of an unusual genetic variant.

2. Hippos produce red sweat which acts as a sunscreen against UV rays.

3. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of water.

4. A baby spider is called a spiderling.

5. Slugs have 4 noses.

Friday 17 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#74)


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. Dogs wag their tails to the right when they're happy and to the left when they're frightened.

2.  90% of all meteorites ever found have come from Antarctica.

3.  A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

4.  The Marshall Islands won't exist if we warm the planet 2 degrees.

5.  The U.S. has more Spanish speakers than Spain.

Friday 10 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#73)

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 word "volcano" originally comes from the name of the Roman god of fire, Vulcan.

2. The Emperor Penguin is able to dive to depths of over 500m and stay under water for up to 27 minutes.

3. Snakes can open their mouth up to 150 degrees.

4. The distinctive smell of Crayola crayons comes from beef fat.

5. In their first year of life, baby blue whales gain 200 pounds (91 kg) every day.

Friday 3 July 2015

Fun Fact Friday (#72)

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.  Beans increase flatulence because they carry a type of sugar called "oligosaccharides", which are hard for bacteria to break down, so they release gas in the process.

2.  Birds "see" the earth's magnetic field as spots in their normal vision.

3.  The animal in the Firefox logo isn't a Fox. It's a Red Panda.

4.  The offspring of a donkey and a zebra is called a "zonkey."

5.  Without your pinky finger, you would lose about 50% of your hand strength.

Wednesday 1 July 2015

July Giveaway: Get organised with a Notebook [INT Ends: 31/7/15]





Congratulations to Kim Neville who was the winner of our last giveaway. It's the start of the month which means it's time to kick start a new (international) giveaway! Since you guys liked the notebook giveaway so much last time, this month I'll be giving away another in case you missed out last time and still want an opportunity to get organized. If you want to be in with a chance of winning then enter below.

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Goodluck!