Fun Fact Friday (#21)

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. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world's lakes combined.

2. Did you know that you burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

3. Butterflies live for just 2 to 4 weeks.

4. Turtles have lived on earth even before the dinosaurs.

5. Natural gas is odorless. The smell is added artificially for safety reasons.

Fun Fact Friday (#20)

 

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.

I hope you're all enjoying your holidays so far. This week we'll be having a Festive Fact Friday as we're coming up to Christmas. Hope you enjoy!

This week’s five, festive facts:

1. There are 364 gifts mentioned in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

2. According to the Guinness world records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir that was displayed in 1950 at the Northgate Shopping Center in Seattle, Washington.

3. In Victorian times, the sweet mince pies of today were made with beef and spices.

4. Many parts of the Christmas tree can actually be eaten, with the needles being a good source of Vitamin C. Yum!

5. Tinsel was once made of real silver. It was invented in Germany in 1610.

Fun Fact Friday (#19)

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. One tiger alone killed 430 people in Nepal and India in the 19th century.

2.  Only 8% of the world's currency is physical money. The rest exists only on computers.

3.  Female kangaroos are almost always pregnant.

4.  About 100 elephants are being killed every day for their ivory.

5. Polar bears aren't found in Antarctica. Only in the Arctic.

Fun Fact Friday (#18)

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.  Christmas classic “Do You Hear What I Hear?” was written as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

2.  The flashes of colored light you see when you rub your eyes are called "phosphenes." 

3.  Harvestmen, or Daddy longlegs, aren't actually spiders: they belong to a different order of arachnids.

4.  Billiards was once a lawn game played outdoors, which is why today’s pool tables have a green felt cover.

5.  The human bone most often broken is the clavicle (collar bone).