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).

Fun Fact Friday (#17)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you 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. Did you know that cat’s urine glows under a black light.

 

2. Slugs have 4 noses.

 

3. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

 

4.  It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

 

5.  Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Fun Fact Friday (#16)

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 cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.

2.  The “dot” over the letter “i” is called a tittle.

3. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks – otherwise it will digest itself.

4. The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”

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

Fun Fact Friday (#15)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you 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:

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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 plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

2. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

3. Broccoli and cauliflower are the only vegetables that are flowers.

4. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

5. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Fun Fact Friday (#14)

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 brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen that is used by the human body.

2. Adult lungs have a surface area of about 70 metres squared. 

3.Our tongue prints are completely unique.

4. Depending on how old you are, it's quite likely that you have eyelash mites. These creatures like to like live off old skin cells and sebum.

5. Every day the average person loses between 60 and 100 strands of hair.

Fun Fact Friday (#13)

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I'm Booked! Isn't it very fitting that the 13th Fun Fact Friday is on the day after Halloween... spooky. I hope you've all had a frightfully sweet filled week.

Now onto this weeks freaky(ish) facts...

1. Samhainophobia is the fear of Halloween

2. The owl is a popular Halloween image. In Medieval Europe, owls were thought to be witches, and to hear an owl's call meant someone was about to die.

3. The Irish carved Turnips and put coals or small candles inside. They were placed outside their homes on All Hallow's Eve to ward off evil spirits. They were also known to use potatoes and Rutabagas.

4. The word “witch” comes from the Old English wicce, meaning “wise woman.”

5. The famous magician Harry Houdini died in 1926 on Halloween night as a result of appendicitis brought on by three stomach punches.

Happy Halloween!

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is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you own Fun Fact Friday, just ask! At I’m Booked! Every week we’ll give you five new, fun facts.

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Fun Fact Friday (#12)

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 average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.

2.  It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.

3.  The longest bout of hiccups lasted 69 years.

4.  A butterfly has its taste receptors in its feet.

5.  Raindrops aren’t really shaped like drops; they're actually perfectly round.

Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you 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:

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Fun Fact Friday is a meme hosted by Lettora at I’m Booked! If you’d like to join and do you 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:

- See more at: http://im-booked.blogspot.co.uk/#sthash.TacBsl78.dpuf