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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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! 

Fun Fact Friday (#71)

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. Men sweat up to twice as much as women.

2. Fetuses don't develop fingerprints until 3 months' gestation.

3. Someone who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh a whopping 354 pounds on Jupiter.

4.  IKEA consumes 1% of the Earth's wood supply every year.

5.  A group of cockroaches is called an intrusion.

Fun Fact Friday (#70)

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. At the center of every raindrop is an impurity such as dust, clay or soot. It is almost impossible for raindrops to form from pure water.

2. The opah, or "moonfish", is the only known fully warm-blooded fish.

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

4.  A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

5.  Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Fun Fact Friday (#69)

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. 1 in 10,000 people have their internal organs reversed or "mirrored" from their normal positions.

2.  Crying makes you feel better, reduces stress, and may help to keep the body healthy.

3.  The Harry Potter series were the most banned books of the century in the U.S.

4.  There's a Cereal Cafe in London where you can eat hundreds of different kinds of cereals from around the world.

5.  A knork is a combination of a knife and a fork.

Fun Fact Friday (#68)

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.  New Zealand bans all advertising on TV on Christmas, Easter, Good Friday and ANZAC Day.

2. Dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand pointing.

3.  Cats can swallow and digest their food without chewing it.

4.  A group of zebras is called a "dazzle".

5. It would take a snail nearly 4,575 years to circle Earth .