Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
WOW! HERE IN THE UK, MAY IS NATIONAL SMILE MONTH.
u Fortune cookies are not Chinese, but American, invented by Charles Jung in 1918.
u YOU BURN MORE CALORIES WHEN SLEEPING THAN WHEN WATCHING TV. u Pink does not actually exist! It’s a combination of red and violet, on opposite sides of the spectrum, so it can’t exist in nature without bending the rainbow to allow red and violet to commingle – a theoretical impossibility.
u UNTIL 1877, LECTURERS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO MARRY, AND WOMEN WERE NOT GRANTED DEGREES UNTIL 1920.
u The Earth has travelled more than 5,000 miles through the universe in the last 5 minutes.
u MAY IS GENERALLY THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN NAMED FOR MAIA, THE GREEK GODDESS OF FERTILITY.
u The chance of you dying on the way to buy a lottery ticket is higher than your chance of winning.
u ACCORDING TO TRADITIONAL SUPERSTITIONS, YOU SHOULD NOT BUY A NEW BROOM, WASH BLANKETS, OR GET MARRIED IN MAY.
u One serving of peas contains as much Vitamin C as two large apples and more fibre than a slice of wholemeal bread.
u SOME EYE SURGERY USES SHARK CORNEAS AS THEY ARE THE MOST SIMILAR TO HUMAN CORNEAS. WOW! More people die from smoke inhalation than flames. Fire sucks all of the oxygen from a room, filling it with smoke before flames even reach the room.
u A group of buffalo is called an obstinacy.
u FOURTEEN NEW SPECIES OF DANCING FROG WERE DISCOVERED IN 2014, RAISING THE GLOBAL NUMBER OF KNOWN DANCINGFROG SPECIES TO 24.
u The longest mountain range on Earth is underwater. The mid ocean ridge system stretches for 80,000km all around the world, nearly 20 times longer than the Andes.
u DRYING FRUIT DEPLETES IT OF 30-80% OF ITS VITAMIN AND ANTIOXIDANT CONTENT. u PINK, ASSOCIATED WITH CHERRY BLOSSOMS, IS THE COLOUR OF SPRING IN JAPAN – AND THE BLOSSOMS OF THE CHERRY TREE ARE SAID TO REPRESENT THE SOULS OF FALLEN SAMURAI.