Fancy That!
Facts to make you go “WOW!”
THERE ARE MORE LIFE FORMS LIVING ON YOUR SKIN THAN THERE ARE PEOPLE ON THE PLANET!
◆ Not sure of the difference between poisonous and venomous? If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous. ◆ FIVE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MURDERED FOR UNFRIENDING SOMEONE ON FACEBOOK!
◆ The official definition of a star like our sun is a “YellowG2 Dwarf” – an average, middle-aged star at its most stable point in its lifetime.
◆ ON AUGUST 13, 1941, JOSEF JAKOB, AWW2 GERMAN SPY, WAS THE LAST PERSON TO BE EXECUTED AT THE TOWER OF LONDON. ◆ Grecianwomen in 3000BC used ox hair as fake eyebrows. In the 18th century, women shaved their eyebrows and used mouse hair instead!
◆ MUM, THE FIRST MODERN DEODORANT, WAS INVENTED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1889. INSPIRED BY THE BALLPOINT PEN, ROLLON DEODORANTWAS INTRODUCED IN 1952. ◆ 64% ofwomen find clothes shopping to be depressing and 10% of women have cried in changing rooms. On august 12, 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph Five million sausages are eaten every day in the UK ◆ Google uses about 0.0003 kWh of energy to answer the average search query, which translates into about 0.2 g of carbon dioxide released. ◆ DUE TO THE UNCLEANLINESS OF THEWATER AT THE TIME, BABIES IN 14TH CENTURY HEREFORDSHIREWERE BAPTISED IN CIDER.
◆ Living next to a nuclear power plant for 1 year gives you 100x less radiation than eating a bag of potato crisps every day for a year!
◆ ON AVERAGE, 488 PEOPLE ARE INJURED BY ZIPS AND 3078 PEOPLE ARE INJURED BY SLIPPERS EVERY YEAR IN THE UK.
◆ HenryVIPart1 and The Tempest are the only plays by Shakespeare thatmention the month of August. ◆ DRYING YOUR HANDS ON A PAPER TOWEL REDUCES THE BACTERIAL COUNT BY 45-60%, BUT A HOT AIR HAND DRYER INCREASES IT BY UP TO A WHOPPING 255%.
◆ Theworld’s longest wedding dress trainwas 1.85 miles long, and required three miles of taffeta and 18 feet of lace to make.
◆ 80,000 UMBRELLAS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LOST ANNUALLY IN LONDON’S TUBE SYSTEM. 5% of cats are allergic to humans!