- John Wayne didn't want to be an actor when he started in the movie business... he wanted to be a director!
- There is more sugar in a kilo of lemons than in a kilo of strawberries! YUMMY!
- At birth a baby blue whale is about 25ft in length and can weigh in excess of 4000 Lbs!
- Garlic belongs to the lily family
- After the age of 30 the chances of going grey increases by 10-20% every single decade
- The closest star to us (apart from the Sun) is called Proxima Centauri.
- 90% of the calories you burn are used to keep you warm.
- Technically a drizzle is 14 drops of rain per square foot per second, a light rain is 26 drops
- The world's oldest known song was written on a clay tablet and is reckoned to be about 3,400 years old!
- A young scorpion is called a 'scorpling' - that's defo one to wow your friends with!
- Have you ever walked into a room & forgot why you went there? What if that's God playing Sims and he just cancelled your action.
- Usually, the people with the best advice are the ones with the most problems.
- You are in love if your crush for someone stays with you longer than 4 months, a psychological study suggests.
- Plump up pillows by putting them in the dryer for about 10 minutes
- A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
- "It's ok" and "I'm fine" are the two most common lies spoken in the world.
- Children and teens consume 110-165 more calories than they burn each day on average. That's 58 extra pounds over 10 years.
- Staying up all night will cause your body to burn an extra 161 calories.
- In 1977 we received a radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. To this day, we don’t know where it came from:
- Twitter's home button is a birdhouse. When you join you're an egg. The logo is a bird. Most people don't realise this
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