Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
WOW! THE FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY IS WORLD NAKED GARDENING DAY!
◆ In the nursery rhyme HereWe GoGathering NutsInMay, the word nuts was probably a corruption of knots, meaning bunches of flowers.
◆ 75% OF THE WORLD’S DIET IS PRODUCED FROM JUST 12 PLANT AND 5 ANIMAL SPECIES.
◆ The modern diet is low in omega 3 essential fatty acids and high in omega 6 vegetable oils, resulting in brain shrinkage.
◆ Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820 – in Florence, Italy.
◆ WHEN THE STAR BETELGEUSE GOES SUPERNOVA, IT WILL LIGHT OUR SKY CONTINUOUSLY FOR TWO MONTHS. THIS COULD HAPPEN AT ANY TIME – TWO THOUSAND YEARS, NEXT YEAR, EVEN TODAY!
◆ Vulcan Point is an island in a lake (Main Crater Lake) on an island (Taal Island) in a lake (Lake Taal) on an island (Luzon) in the Philippine Sea…
◆ WE’RE LUCKY
THAT FINGERPRINTS
ARE UNIQUE – OTHERWISE
FORENSICS WOULD BE OBSESSED WITH TONGUES SINCE
TONGUE PRINTS ARE ALSO UNIQUE… THOUGH A LOT ICKIER!
◆ If you cut a hole in a fishing net, it then has fewer holes… think about it!
◆ On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.
◆ THERE IS AN ESTIMATED
100 BILLION GALAXIES IN THE UNIVERSE ALL WITH AN AVERAGE 100 BILLION STARS… THAT’S 13 GALAXIES FOR EACH PERSON, AND 1.3 TRILLION STARS FOR YOU ALONE!
About 700grapes –that’s morethan akilo!–goes into one bottle of wine
◆ NO REAL ASTRONAUT EVER UTTERED THE PHRASE, “HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM” – ONLY TOM HANKS SAID IT, IN THE MOVIE APOLLO13.
WOW! If Facebook was a country, it would have 1 billion more people than the whole of China.
◆ MORE PEOPLE GET HURT EVERY YEAR FROM USING DRINKS DISPENSERS THAN BY SHARK ATTACKS.
◆ The hashtag symbol is called an octothorpe – although no one really knows why.
◆ IF YOU TRANSLATE DIRECT FROM HEBREW TO ENGLISH, JESUS SHOULD BE JOSHUA. THE NAME JESUS CAME FROM TRANSLATING FROM HEBREW TO GREEK TO LATIN TO ENGLISH.
All youpeople allergic to cats mightrejoiceinthe fact thatcats(albeit rarely) can be allergic to humans