Fascinating Facts

[Admin]

Thought I'd share 10 fascinating facts with you.


1. French was the official language of England for over 600 years.

2. In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed.

3. During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.

4. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

5 At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.

6. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

7. A snail can sleep for three years.

8. The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

9. While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.

10. Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

Got any fascinating facts you'd like to share?

[Admin]

The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped.
There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.
The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.
Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
Lightning strikes men about seven times more often than it does women.
The living does not outnumber the dead: since the creation about 60 billion people have died.

[Admin]

Sometimes it's on the tip of your tongue... "What is it called again?" It's not always easy to remember those out-of-the-ordinary things but to refresh your memory, here's what it is called.
Shoemakers are commonly called cobblers but correctly speaking a cobbler is a shoe repairmen. A shoemaker is a cordwainer - they also made leather bottles and harnesses.
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
A building in which silence is enforced, like a library or school room, is referred to as a silentium.
The ear-splitting sound produced by the high notes of a bagpipe is called a skirl.
The fleshy projection above the bill on a turkey is called a snood.
People who chase after rare birds are called twitchers.
People that study fish are called ichthyologists.
Shoemakers are commonly called cobblers but correctly speaking a cobbler is a shoe repairmen. A shoemaker is actually called a cordwainer.
Ducks are never male. The males of the species are called drakes.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

[Wales Jay]

The ear-splitting sound produced by the high notes of a bagpipe is called a skirl.
Was interested in this little tit-bit especially when :bounce:we in Priory Way/Gardens have the "phantom bigpiper" in our midst - the above describes what one of my neighbours must have experienced the other evening when she "screeched" over her fence and told him politely to "shut it up":: not sure who was making the most noise! Her, her barking dogs or the phantom bagpiper/ Personally I vote for the bag piper everytime. As for the "screeching" I thought we were on a council housing estate!!