Trivia Blog

there are two things I love about getting my period:
1) it means I'm not pregnant (and that's always a cause for celebration)
2) the trivia on the back of the stickers from my pads - I find it hilarious that they think I'd like a little bit of light reading while I'm on the torlet...

anyway, I thought I'd spread the love, and share some of the interesting little tid-bits of info I've garnered over the last couple of days:

• An elephant can throw a baseball faster than a human
• The total length of all eyelashes shed by a human in their lifetime is over thirty metres
• A typical bed is usually home to over six billion dust mites
• A zebra is white with black stripes, not black with white stripes
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a spider
• A crocodile can't stick out it's tongue
• You can stop a sneeze by pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
• There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
• Turtles and honeybees are both deaf
• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated
• Clouds fly higher during the day than at night
• 1.5 billion kilograms of chocolate are consumed worldwide each year
• The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache
• A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason taht telephone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long
• Starfish don't have brains
• Cats have better memories than dogs
• The average human will drink about 72,737 litres of water in a lifetime
• The largest number of children born to one woman is 69 in Russia
• If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white
• Between the ags of 30 and 70, your nose may lengthen and widen by as much as 1.5cm

there we go people: Angsty Ekstasis is always answering the big questions we as a society face every day. There's no need for thanks - no really...