Fun but True facts!
There are so many unbelievable yet true facts we are not heard of. We all know women never get tired of shopping until around 2 hours! But the average male gets bored of a shopping trip after 26 minutes. So next time you see a couple at a retail store with a bored looking boyfriend, you know they have been out for more than half an hour.
There are so many phobias. There is this phobia I wouldn’t like to have… it would probably mean I would fear these fun facts! Yes. It is called Cherophobia and it’s an irrational fear of fun or happiness.
And another one called Pteronophobia which is the fear of being tickled by feathers. The word “ptero” is the Greek word for feather, and “phobia” is also Greek, meaning fear.
We think animals have 5 senses only, but we might be wrong, Snakes can sense a coming earthquake from 75 miles away (121 km), up to five days before it happens.
Can we stop the kangaroos from hopping? Yes, if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop.
Kangaroos use their tails for balance whilst hopping, so if you elevate their tail, they would have no balance and fall over.
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born. You would think this would make them hard to spot, however since eggs are laid by the tens of thousands, it would be hard to miss a massive cluster of pea-sized octopuses!
Anyways enough of animals, lets move onto a fruit. Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.
Bananas go through a process called “negative geotropism.” and ”positive phototropism” instead of growing towards the ground, they start growing towards the sun. The fruit grows against gravity, which gives the banana its familiar curved shape.
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.
Before smallpox was eradicated, it was a serious infectious disease caused by the variola virus. It was contagious meaning, it spread from one person to another. People who had smallpox had a fever and a distinctive, progressive skin rash.
Most people with smallpox recovered, but about 3 out of every 10 people with the disease died.
Rinderpest, which means “cattle plague” in German, is highly contagious and has a fatality rate of about 80 percent
The last naturally occurring case of smallpox was diagnosed in October 1977, and the last case of rinderpest was diagnosed in 2001.
Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman. The country was discovered by the French after they were shipwrecked on the island. They arrived on December 13th which is the feast of Saint Lucy- hence, why they named it Saint Lucia!
Interestingly during our lifetime, we will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
An average human produces between 1 to 2 litters of saliva each day, which is a maximum of 730 litters per year.
The average life expectancy is just over 70 years, which gives a maximum of 51,100 litres of saliva produced in an average lifetime.
This is more than enough to fill two swimming pools. Hope you found some of the facts interesting.
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Sivajenani
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