Fascinating Facts

Everyone seems to be doing this thing on their blog when they post weird and unusual facts so I thought I might give it a try! Please respond if you like this post and want another 😀 By the way, it is highly unlikely that any of these facts will be to any use in life, but they are mostly fun anyway!

  • A shrimp’s heart is in its head
  • People say ‘Bless You” when you sneeze, because your heart stops for a milli-second
  • In a study of 200,000 ostriches in a time period of 80 years, there has never once been a report of an ostrich sticking it’s head in the sand
  • It is physically impossible for pigs to lick up at the sky
  • A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
  • More than 50% of people in the world have never made or received a phone call
  • If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib
  • If you keep an eye open when you sneeze, you can pop an eyeball out.
  • If you try to suppress a sneeze to hard, you can rapture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
  • Wearing headphones for just an hour, can multiply the bacteria in your ear my 700
  • A duck’s quack soes not echo
  • Most lipstick contains fish scales
  • Everyone’s tongue print is different
  • Karaoke means “empty orchestra” in Japenese
  • Camels have three eyelids
  • Italy has more hotel rooms than any nation in Europe
  • Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails
  • A hippo can open it’s mouth wide enough to fit four 4 foot tall children inside
  • It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs
  • Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite
  • Most dust particles in your house are made of dead skin
  • Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams in one year
  • A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
  • 1 in every 4 Americans have appeared on television
  • Over 1,000 birds die every year from smashing into windows
  • It is against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland
  • In space, astronauts can not cry because there is no gravity and no way for the tears to flow
  • More people use blue toothbrushes than red
  • owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue
  • Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning
  • Slugs have four noses
  • It is against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland
  • Honey bees ave hair on their eyes
  • Jellyfish have 95% of water in their body
  • Chewing gum while peeling onions will stop you from crying
  • The most common name in the world is “Mohammad”
  • The elephant is the only mammal that can not jump
  • In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals

I hope you enjoyed them! Were there any you already knew? If so, which ones? Which one was the oat shocking and which one was your personal favourite? I did not know a single one of them before I wrote them down! I hope you enjoyed!

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My names Emily. I like playing sport, reading, travelling, singing, acting, imagining, sleeping, relaxing, spending time with friends and family, making people laugh and playing my violin. As you can see, I like doing a lot of things but most of all I love writing!

3 thoughts on “Fascinating Facts

  1. Wow! All of those facts are super cool. I knew a lot of them already, but I didn’t know that in Bangladesh kids can be jailed for cheating in a test? It’s a bit…over the top. Keep up the great work!

  2. Awesome facts Emily, I knew a lot of them like you can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs and that it’s physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky. The most shocking one for me was in a study of 200,000 ostriches in a time period of 80 years, not one of them was recorded to have stuck their head in the sand. I find that funny because in the cartoons whenever an ostrich gets scared they’ll lay an egg then stick their head in the ground. My personal favorite was more people use red toothbrushes then red, I find this odd because it’s something you don’t usually pay attention to. Keep up with the amazing facts 🙂 I have some on my blog too mirandar6.edublogs.org Keep writing!

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