Every Day is a School Day.
Eve McAuley comes up with some interesting facts to amuse and astound
Around three million people Google the words “interesting facts” every single month.
• If a shark stops moving it dies.
• The chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001%. That means you’re more likely to be killed by a donkey or to naturally conceive identical quadruplets.
• They test plane windscreens by throwing chickens at them at five hundred miles per hour so they know they can resist errant flying birds.
• Neil Armstrong took his boots off and left them on the moon to compensate for the weight of the moon rocks they took.
• When a frog vomits it ejects its entire stomach and uses its forearms to empty out the contents.
• Studies have shown it takes exactly four seconds for a silence to become awkward.
• Fifty-four per cent of the world’s population can’t swim.
• The suns core is so hot that a piece the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 160 kilometres away.
• Every time you breathe in you take in a molecule that used to be part of a dinosaur.
• 99.99999999999999999 per cent of every atom consists of empty space. That means that every single thing in front of you is mostly not there, that includes you.
• Teddy bears have killed more people than real bears have.
• If you watch early episodes of Fresh Prince of Bel-air you can see Will Smith’s lips moving to other characters lines.
• Centralia, Pennsylvania is a town that’s been on fire since 1962.
• The hole in the doughnut was invented by a 16-year-old sailor named Hanson Gregory.
• Belle from “Beauty and the Beast” makes an appearance in Disney’s “Hunchback of Notre Dame.
• Bart from “The Simpsons” is voiced by a 52-year-old woman.
• The original pack of Skittles doesn’t contain the colour blue, therefore you can’t actually taste the rainbow.
• If Santa Claus was real, in order to deliver presents to 378 million children all over the world, his sleigh would have to travel move at 3,000 times the speed of sound with 214,200 reindeer and the air resistance and the centrifugal forces would cause both the reindeer and Santa to explode.
• Humans can be scared of literally anything.
Fear of dust – amathophobia
Fear of Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth – arachibutyrophobia
Fear of space – astrophobia
Fear of having a phobia – phobophobia
Fear of glass – crystellophobic
Fear of dolls – automatonophobic
Fear of long words – hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
• 6,000 pounds of micro-meteorites hit the atmosphere every day. They then get caught in clouds and water coalesces around them so that they fall to earth in rain. So when it rains you’re getting covered in tiny bits of shooting stars that are billions of years old and have just come from outer space.
• There’s an animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean called the Pacific Ocean Hagfish. When it feels threatened, it oozes a defensive slime from its pores that envelopes its predator in a mass of fibrous goo. It then gets trapped in its own goo and dies.
• People in Japan consume more paper as Manga than they do as toilet paper.
• There are 23 vending machines for every one person in Japan and there are more people in Tokyo (Japans capital city) than Australia and New Zealand put together.
