Fun Fact Friday (#80)

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. Astronauts aboard the ISS change clothes near a filter that sucks up the skin particles that would otherwise float around.

2.  A single LEGO brick can take 432 kg (950 lbs) of pressure before it cracks.

3.  On August 10, 2015, NASA astronauts ate food that had been grown in space for the first time.

4.  The world record for most claps in one minute is 1,020.

5. A group of barracudas is called a battery.

Fun Fact Friday (#79)

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.  Only about 15% of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand.

2.  A cat's tail contains nearly 10% of all the bones in its body.

3.  A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.

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

5.  A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.

Source: Bootstrike

Fun Fact Friday (#78)

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.  Most oysters can live up to 20 years in captivity. 

2.  The toxin in puffer fish is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide.

3.  Oysters have three-chambered hearts that pump colorless blood throughout their bodies.

4.  A rodent's teeth never stop growing.

5.  Butterflies taste with their feet.

Fun Fact Friday (#77)

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 whole Harry Potter series contains 199 chapters, 4,224 pages and 1,090,739 words and has been made into 19 hours and 39 minutes of film.

2. Snakes don't have eyelids.

3. Spiders, lobsters and snails have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin which contains copper.

4. There are more than 1,200 water parks in North America.

5. The highest wave ever surfed reached a height of 24.3m (80ft).

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.

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)

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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)

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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 .

Fun Fact Friday (#67)

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 Amazon River once flowed in the opposite direction, from east to west.

2.  Fossil evidence suggests that fish have been on Earth for about 530 million years.

3.  The Amazon River discharges 5 times as much water as any other river on the planet.

4.  Cat kidneys are so efficient they can rehydrate by drinking seawater.

5.  There's a restaurant built into a grotto in Italy.

Fun Fact Friday (#66)

 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.  Elephant brains can weigh as much as 5 KG (11 LB), more than the brain of any other land animal.

2.  Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

3.  A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

4.  Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

5.  Slugs have 4 noses.

Fun Fact Friday (#65)

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 weird bright dots you see floating when you look at the sky are your white blood cells.

2. Almost a third of the world's languages are spoken only in Africa.

3. A koi fish named "Hanako" lived for 225 years.

4.  There's an Island in Brazil where civilians are forbidden to go: it has up to 5 snakes per square meter.

5.  1.3 million Earths could fit into the Sun.

Fun Fact Friday (#64)

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 are as smart as a 2-year-old baby. They can learn and understand over 150 words.

2.  At rest, your brain uses one fifth of a calorie per minute.

3.  Between 10 and 20 volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earth every day.

4.  Cats sweat through their paws.

5.  A newly-discovered species of rust-eating bacteria will have consumed the wreck of the Titanic within 20 years.

Fun Fact Friday (#63)

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 quarter of all ice-free land in the world is used for grazing livestock.

2.  The gastric-brooding frog gives birth through its mouth.

3.  Oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface.

4.  63 Earths can fit inside Uranus.

5.  43% of the world's olive oil production is done in Spain.

Fun Fact Friday (#62)

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 skin is 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.

2.  Coffee doesn't taste like it smells because saliva wipes out half of the flavor.

3.  A Giraffe's legs alone are taller than most humans: about 6 feet (1.81 m).

4.  Oceans covers 71% of the Earth's surface.

5.  Liposuctioned human fat can be recycled as fuel.

Fun Fact Friday (#61)

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 sword-billed hummingbird is the only bird with a beak longer than its body.

2. The word "nice" used to mean "foolish, stupid, senseless."

3. For every grain of sand on every beach on Earth, there are 10,000 stars in the universe.

4. Over half of the world's population is under 30 years old.

5.  Most of Antarctica is covered in ice: less than 1% is permanently ice-free.