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Believe or not, the first 3D film was released in 1920. The Power of Love was shown to an audience in Los Angeles, thanks to an invention by Robert F Elder. 32. Scotland's national animal is a unicorn!
Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system. Don’t worry! Phagocytosis isn't harmful, but actually helps preserve your grey matter. Some animals display autistic-like traits. Autistic traits in animals include a tendency toward repetitive behaviour and atypical social habits. According to several astronauts, space has a hot metallic whiff. But British astronaut Tim Peake has said it also reminded him of a summer barbecue, but explained that it's most likely to be static electricity with ozone. 38. Sloths don't fart!Just like people, some animals, such as cats and dogs, have a preference for using their left paws. Scientists even study this in animals, and they call it "lateralisation." Lions are skilled hunters and can run up to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometres per hour) in short bursts while chasing prey. When did zero become a number?Who was the inventor of Bitcoin?What did the Big Bang sound like?How have sports changed around the world?What’s a malapropism? Interesting Facts For Curious Minds gives you the answer to all these and many, many more questions that I know have crossed your mind from time to time. This book is divided into 63 chapters by topic for your convenience, bringing you a nice mix of science, history, pop culture, and all sorts of stuff in between. Each chapter contains 25 concise yet engaging factoids that are sure to make you think and at times laugh.
The initials represent the chocolate maker owners Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie, and their initials appear on 400 million sweets every day! 36. A human can sweat around 26 gallons in bed every year! You remember more dreams when you sleep badly. Research suggests that if you sleep badly and wake up multiple times throughout the night you will be more likely to recall the content of any dreams you had. You are also more likely to remember a dream when woken from one. Left-handed people often have their own unique style of handwriting because they have to push the pen across the paper rather than pull it as right-handers do. Animals can be allergic to humans. Animals can be allergic to our dead skin cells – dander. These allergic reactions can be just like ours, too, including breathing difficulties and skin irritation.Protons look like peanuts, rugby balls, bagels, and spheres. Protons come in all different shapes and sizes, with their appearance changing based on the speed of smaller particles within them: Quarks.
While we're not going to list every single word here, you could call a large snowflake a 'skelf', for example. Or, if there's a short snowfall, you could call it a 'flindrikin'. So now you know. 40. There are 100 folds in a chef's hat! Has your dog ever done something naughty? Ok, but would you take him to court over it? Up until the 18th century, animals could be accused of crimes just like people. Nothing fun like robbing a bank, most of these 'crimes' were either killing a person or damaging property. Finally people realised that animals probably didn't know what they were doing. So go easy on your dog next time he misbehaves! 60. The tallest ever human was a man called Robert Waldo The digestive system of a sloth is slow and it takes days to digest the leaves. Surprising fact: The sloth’s gut produce methane but instead of being released out of the bum in the usual humorous, stinky way, the methane is absorbed into the blood. So there's absolutely no point in blaming a bad smell on these slow-moving mammals. 39. There are 421 words for snow in Scotland! You travel 2.5 million km a day around the Sun without realising. The Earth’s orbit travels around 2.5 million kilometres with respect to the Sun’s centre, and around 19 million km with respect to the centre of the Milky Way. One in 18 people have a third nipple. Known as polythelia, the third nipple is caused by a mutation in inactive genes.
People who eat whatever they want and stay slim have a slow metabolism, not fast. A skinny person tends to have less muscle mass than others, meaning their basal metabolic rate (BMR) is lower than those of a high muscle mass – this gives them a slow metabolism, not a fast one. While everyone refers to this as a division sign, it's also called an obelus. The name was created by a maths whizz in Switzerland called Johann Rahn. The term appeared in his book Teutsche Algebra ages ago (1659). So if you go into a shop and want Mr. Sheeran's album ÷, remember to drop this fact at your leisure! 12. The first 3 artists to draw Dennis had the same name...
If the Earth doubled in size, trees would immediately fall over. This is because surface gravity would be doubled. It would also mean dog-size and larger animals would not be able to run without breaking a leg. Male lions can weigh up to 550 pounds (250 kilograms), while females are generally smaller, weighing around 350 pounds (160 kilograms).
Bananas are radioactive. Due to being rich in potassium, every banana is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. Interestingly, your body contains around 16mg of potassium-40, meaning you’re around 280 times more radioactive than a banana already. Any excess potassium-40 you gain from a banana is excreted out within a few hours. Like humans, cows can form deep bonds with other cows and develop friendships which can last their whole lives. Research has shown they can exhibit signs of stress when they're not near their friend. What a moo-ving fact. 3. Flamingos are pink because of their diet! Duke, a Great Pyrenees dog, held office in the village of Cormorant, Minnesota. He served four one-year terms – that's 28 years for a dog – after a fun community vote took a serious turn when the fluffy pooch-turned-politician became a viral sensation. 28. The abbreviation OMG was used over 100 years ago!
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