Interesting Facts

  • Did you know that the best way to get the full flavour of any kind of cheese is to leave it under room temperature for 20 minutes before eating it.
  • Did you know that 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  • A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
  • Almonds are a member of the peach family
  • Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors
  • Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older
  • The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
  • There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball
  • There is a town in Newfoundland, Canada called Dildo
  • You blink over 20,000,000 times a year
  • The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is
  • Today, Google employs 20,223 people around the world, receiving a resume every 25 seconds from eager job-seekers, hiring an average of nine new
    employees a day.
  • Baboons can tell the difference between English and French!
  • One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed
  • Prince Charles broke with an 80-year tradition by giving Camilla Parker Bowles a wedding ring fashioned from Cornish gold, instead of the nugget of Welsh gold that has provided rings for all royal brides and grooms since 1923
  • Lionesses like their males to be deep brunettes
  • Bosses at Madame Tussauds spent £10,000 separating the models of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston when they separated. It was the first time the museum had two people's waxworks joined together
  • One person in four has had their identity stolen or knows someone who has
  • The 71m packets of biscuits sold annually by United Biscuits, owner of McVitie's, generate 127.8 tonnes of crumbs
  • One in four people does not know 192, the old number for directory inquiries in the UK, has been abolished
  • There are an estimated 1,000 people in the UK in a persistent vegetative state
  • The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing, outside official breaks, according to employment analysts Captor
  • An average Briton will spend £1,537,380 during his or her lifetime, a survey from insurer Prudential suggests
  • "3 Apples changed the World, 1st one seduced Eve, 2nd fell on Newton and the 3rd was offered to the World half bitten by Steve Jobs."