Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Turtles are able to breathe through their backsides.

About 25% of people in the USA believe that the Sun orbits the Earth, and not the other way around.

The first President of Zimbabwe – President Banana – actually brought in a law to stop people making fun of his name.

According to a Professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona, 20% of office coffee mugs have traces of fecal bacteria!

Remember that the next time you think your coffee tastes like shit!

Christian Bale reportedly studied Tom Cruise’s mannerisms to prepare for his role as a serial killer Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

The first tiger shark to hatch inside of its mother’s womb eats all the other embryos of its siblings. Even scientists admit that this is an unusual mode of survival.

In 2009, Scottish scientists searching for the Loch Ness Monster found 100,000 golf balls instead.

An Egyptian Pharaoh named King Pepy II commonly smothered his servants in honey to keep flies away from him.

(22-03-2021 20:18 )billyboy1963 Wrote:  The first tiger shark to hatch inside of its mother’s womb eats all the other embryos of its siblings. Even scientists admit that this is an unusual mode of survival.

Not quite true, as the shark doesn't have a womb because the hatchlings (pups) are aplacental. Also the mother shark will "give birth to" (eject) between 10 and 80 live year old pups. Also the juvenile shark pups are predated on by adult tiger sharks - including the mother shark who has just given birth to them!

(guess who did a course on marine biology?)

If you were to travel from Finland to North Korea you would only pass through one country - Russia.