Facts of the Month Time

1. A new born crocodile is three times the size of the egg it hatched from.
2. It takes a week to make jelly beans.
3. Tequila is made from the juice of the agave.
4. There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia.
5. A tightrope walker is called a funambulist.
6. Flounder swim sideways.
7. 214 crates were used to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885.
8. The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.
9. A 500gm loaf of bread required 2 tonnes of water to grow the wheat to produce it.
10. Only 2 animals can see completely behind themselves without turning their head; the rabbit and the parrot.
11. It takes a tonne of ore to produce one gold wedding ring.
12. The human eye can, given enough time to adjust, see almost as well as an owl’s.
13. The rush of air produced by a cough can approach 1000km/hour.
14. Starfish dun have brains.
15. The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that telephone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.
16. Cats have better memories than dogs.
17. The average human will drink about 72,737 litres of water in a lifetime.
18. The pupil of an eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.
19. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its’ brain.
20. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at primary school.

This is my favorite fact of the month;

21. In an average lifetime, you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted
insects and 10 spiders.

Oh my goodness! Can you believe that? That really means that there are no such things as vegetarians, since everybody actually snack on itsy bitsy stuff in their sleep! That’s a fact I want at the top of my head the next time I encounter someone who tells me that vegetarianism is a virtue and carnivorism a vice!

Hey! That’s another reason not to brush your teeth before bed too! There is still an additional course coming up, mum!

p/s: OBAMA WON!