Interesting Facts

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Humans and giraffes both have seven vertebrae bones in the neck. It’s not unusual for a mammal to have 7 vertebra bones in the neck but it’s interesting that the long neck of a full grown giraffe has the same amount.

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

Approximately one fifth of all the publications from Japan are comic books.

A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

75% of the world’s population wash themselves in the shower from the top to the bottom. Head first, feet last

You are most likely familiar with numbers being used to implicate letters, phrases or even symbols. In SMS (txting) shortcuts, for instance, 2 can also be used for “to”, 4 can mean “for” and the 8 spells “eat” in gr8, meaning great. This is called SMSish or textese or simply

A Clark’s Nutcracker (bird) can store up to 30,000 pine nuts for the winter in over 6,000 different locations across 300 square miles and remember where at least 70% of them are, finding them even if they’re snow covered.