Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
WOW! MADAME CURIE’S NOTEBOOKS ARE STILL RADIOACTIVE. RESEARCHERS WISHING TO STUDY THEM MUST SIGN A WAIVER IN ORDER TO DO SO.
◆ In the UK, April is national awareness month for pets, maths, stress, IBS, bowel cancer and jazz!
◆ According to UK research, people born in April and May score highly on the hyperthymia scale – the scientific term for optimism!
◆ THE SPANISH WORD “ESPOSAS” CAN MEAN BOTH HANDCUFFS AND WIVES!
◆ There are more lifeforms currently living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
◆ The word Crayola means “oily chalk”.
◆ WHEN YOU GAIN OR LOSE WEIGHT YOU DO NOT GAIN OR LOSE FAT CELLS, THEY SIMPLY CHANGE THEIR SIZE.
◆ The microwave was invented after a researcher walked past a radar tube and the chocolate bar in his pocket melted.
◆ A black hole is not really a hole, but a hugely dense object with a massive gravitational pull.
◆ In the high mountain forests of Nepal live giant bees of over an inch in length, and their honey can cause hallucinations.
◆ THE LEAN IN BIG BEN (ELIZABETH TOWER) CAN NOW BE SEEN WITH THE NAKED EYES, AND IN 4,000 YEARS IT WILL BE AT THE SAME ANGLE AS THE TOWER OF PISA IS NOW.
◆ ON APRIL 11, 1970 APOLLO 13 LAUNCHED FROM CAPE KENNEDY AND 56 HOURS LATER IT RAN INTO DIFFICULTIES. IT WAS THEN THAT THE OFTEN MISQUOTED LINE “HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE” WAS SAID.
◆ And on April 12, 1961 the first human went into space. Russian Yuri Gagarian travelled 187 miles above the Earth in the spacecraft Vostok I.
WOW! RATS MULTIPLY SO QUICKLY THAT IN 18 MONTHS TWO RATS COULD HAVE OVER A MILLION DESCENDANTS.
◆ OF ALL THE MAMMALS IN THE WORLD, ONLY HUMANS AND APES CANNOT SEE ULTRAVIOLET RAYS.
◆ An episode of PeppaPig was pulled from Australian TV for teaching children not to fear spiders – none too wise in Oz!
Queen Elizabeth II has had over30corgis in her lifetime