Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The human foetus will react to loud rock music by kicking.

If you start at Cape Horn and sail due East or West and assuming you travel on a dead straight course the first land you will reach is Cape Horn.

Sometimes a male octopus gets eager and tries to mate with a female too many times, so she strangles him and eats him.

Flocks of birds no matter how large, are never led by a single individual.

Never realised that Lily the Pink by The Scaffold was a Christmas no.1 and it is rarely played these days although someone chose it for their Tracks of my Years on the Ken Bruce Show earlier this month and it is in fact named after a real person. I agree some of those Christmas No.1's were real shockers and the Rage Against The Machine tune was the result of a backlash against XFactor hijacking the charts do a number of years. It was probably the least Christmassy tune ever.

If you were to pick up a yellow spotted millipede, it would curl into a spiral and exude hydrogen cyanide on you, accompanied by the strong scent of roasted almonds.

The white stuff in bird poop is not poop. It is their urine. The brown or green stuff is their poop. They excrete both together

Vinculum is the name given to the line between two fractions.

The ‘Jesus nut’ is the only component holding the rotors to the body of some helicopters.

On average there is one supernova explosion every 50 years in the Milky Way galaxy alone. Within the observable universe there are around 30 every second.