Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Velociraptors were slightly bigger than chickens.

Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to “have a ball after I’m gone”.

Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the ‘Like’ button the ‘Awesome’ button.

(18-12-2018 19:49 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  Velociraptors were slightly bigger than chickens.

Like to see you get one in the oven for Christmas!

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

A category 3 hurricane releases more energy in 10 minutes than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

Wearing headphones for one hour will increase the amount of bacteria in your ears by 700 times.

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I've just learned that in fact Oliver Cromwell wasn't the instigator of banning Christmas-it had in fact happened before he came to power by a group by Parliamentarian puritans! He was also not averse to singing, dancing and playing silly games at Christmas but only in private-he still disapproved of Christmas in public.

A ten-year-old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new due to debris that it absorbs over time. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and decaying bodies), mold, millions of dead skin cells, dandruff, animal and human hair, secretions, excretions, lint, pollen, dust, soil, sand, and a lot of perspiration, which the average person loses at a rate of a quart a day. Good night!

The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles without surfacing for air.