SOC Junior Section - Interesting Facts

  • The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

 

  • The Sun’s light takes eight minutes to reach the Earth

 

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  • A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds     

  • The average person is about ¼ of an inch (6mm) taller at night.

  • Doctors believe one in seven people can’t digest milk

  • Hippos kill more people than any other animal even though they are vegetarians

 

  • The microwave was invented after a researcher walked past a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

  • At 2 inches (5cm) diameter, an Ostrich’s eye is twice as large as it’s brain and weighs 3.3lbs (1.3kg)

 

  • Some North American frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living

 

  • The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it

 

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  • The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night

  • A Rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair

  • The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes

 

  • A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear

 

  • Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honour of his brother

  • Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors

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  • Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants

  • More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes

 

  • Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand

 

  • Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump"

 

  • Deer can't eat hay.

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  • If you keep a Goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white

  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men

  • The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language

 

  • The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with

 

  • If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
  • The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want

 

 

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  • TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard

  • A snail can sleep for 3 years

  • American Airlines saved £40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class

  • China has more English speakers than the United States

  • The electric chair was invented by a dentist

 
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