Useless yet interesting facts

Here are a few facts that I thought were interesting Hope you enjoy them too 😁

• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music

• Placing a piece of charcoal, chalk or mothballs in a toolbox prevents tools from rusting.

• Acorns are poisonous to humans if eaten, they will cause kidney damage

• On a clear night a human can see a candle burning 50km away

• When glass breaks the cracks move faster than 5000km an hour

• The favourite horse wins fewer than 30% of all races

• In the time it takes you to read this sentence 50,000 cells in your body will die & be replaced

• It takes a ton of ore to produce one gold wedding ring

• 214 crates were used to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to New York in 1885

• The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat

• The starfish has 5 limbs & can regrow for of them as long as its central body is not harmed

• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

• An average snail moves at a rate of 58cm per hour

• Blype is the name given to the skin that peels off after sunburn

• A Lungfish can live out of water in suspended animation for three years

• Proportionally, earths atmosphere is thinner than the skin of an apple

• Road Runner has only been caught by Wile E. Coyote once on 21 May 1980

• Bananas grow on plants that are giant herbs, and are related to the lily & orchid family

• The male fox mates for life, if the female dies he remains single till death

• A 500gm loaf of bread requires 2 tonnes of water to grow the wheat to produce it

• Only two animals can see completely behind them without turning their heads, the rabbit & the parrot

• There are more than twice as many kangaroos as people in Australia

• Flounder swim sideways

• The human eye can, given enough time to adjust, see almost as well as an owl’s

• Kermit the frog has 11 points on his collar

• The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps

• Female elephants produce only one offspring every 5 years

• The African eagle, swooping at nearly 200km an hour can brake to a halt in 6 metres

• Chocolate has a chemical that helps counteract depression

• Children born in May are, on average 200 grams heavier at birth than children born in any other month

• A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sand storm

• It takes a week to make jelly beans

• Tequila is made from the juice of the Agave

• A newborn crocodile is three times the size of the egg it hatched from