Random Facts

Because the title says so. Because I am moving and that I am going to throw away those snippets of little information. Because they are fun. Because fact no. 20 is more amazing than anything...

1. Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
2. If 80% of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would still continue to function.
3. There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
4. A skunk can be detected by a human over one kilometer away.
5. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
6. A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.
7. The art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.
8. All hurricanes form over water and last for about 10 days.
9. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.
10. The main purpose of growing rice in flooded paddocks is to drwon the weeds surrounding the seedlings.
11. It takes an average 90 squirts from a cow’s udder to make a litre of milk.
12. Horse-racing regulations require no racehorse’s name to contain more than 18 letters.
13. Sheep will not drink from running water.
14. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
15. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, egg whites were a popular form of laundry detergent.
16. The Hollywood sign was erected in 1923.
17. Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
18. Mosquitoes have teeth.
19. In Elizabethan times, carnations were used to spice wine and ale.
20. Up until the age of six or seven months, children can breathe and swallow simultaneously.
21. Due to its eye placement, a donkey can see all of its hooves at the same time.
22. The mechanical shark in the movie ‘Jaws’ was nicknamed Bruce.
23. Fish can get seasick.
24. Rats can swim for a kilometer without resting. They can also tread water for three days straight.
25. When the Effiel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as ‘the tragic lamppost’.
26. One of the best ways to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.
27. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920s was called crisphead.
28. About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.