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.

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.

Fun Fact Friday (#30)

 

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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.

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Fun Fact Friday (#29)

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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

Fun Fact Friday (#28)

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This week’s five facts:
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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.

Fun Fact Friday (#27)

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This week’s five facts:


1. In the beginning Starbucks only sold roasted whole coffee beans.

2. Sign language has its own grammar.

3.A group of ferrets is called a business.

4. Logopobia is a fear of words.

5. Pieces of bread were used to erase pencil lead before rubber.

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- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/#sthash.SKH5MAiA.dpuf

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- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/#sthash.SKH5MAiA.dpuf

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Fun Fact Friday (#26)

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This week’s five facts:

1. Tennis was first played with bare hands.

2. Ommatophobia is the fear of eyes.

3. Some pirates used earrings because they thought that wearing them would improve or even cure bad eyesight.

4. The number or hash-tag symbol, #, is known as an octothorp.

5. A single strand of spaghetti is called spaghetto

Review: If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Title: If I Stay 
Author: Gayle Forman
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Page Count:  201
Publication Date: April 2^nd 2009


Synopsis:

“Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.

Stay, he says.”

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.

If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.(Goodreads)

What I Thought:

So in the beginning Mia has everything going for her: Cooler-than-cool parents, an adorable little brother, a best friend and a boyfriend to boot. Then her whole world comes crashing down when her family gets into a car accident.

Fun Fact Friday (#25)

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. On average an alligator can get through 2000-3000 teeth in their lifetime.

2. Sherlock Holmes never said 'elementary, my dear Watson'

3. By comparison there are about a million ants per person

4. Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.

5. Potatoes have more chromosomes than humans.

New addition to Princess Diaries for 2015

Princess Diaries fans hold onto your seats because it looks like Princess Mia is making a return in 2015 with Meg Cabot’s new addition to the series about Mia life as an adult. Time has really passed and next year will be the 15^th anniversary of the first book and with this she is bringing out Princess Diaries XI: Royal Wedding. 

According to Ms Cabot's website the first book will follows Princess Mia's plan for a wedding as someone attempts to steal her throne.

The other book FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF A MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCESS is aimed at younger readers and tells the story of Mia’s long lost half-sister, Olivia who has just discovered she is also a princess.

As a big Princess Diaries fan, this is something I’m definitely looking forward to next year.