Random Facts 20

1. Due to its eye placement a donkey can see all of it’s hooves at the same time.
2. When the Eiffel Tower was built in 1884, Parisians referred to it as ‘the tragic lampost’.
3. Fish have been known to kiss up to 25 minutes.
4. If 80% of your liver were to be removed, the remaining part would continue to function.
5. There is more than 25,000km of neon tubing in the signs on the Strip and downtown Las Vegas.
6. A skink can be detected by a human over one kilometre away.
7. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
8. A newborn hedgehog starts to get their spines within 24 hours of birth.
9. The art of mapmaking is older than the art of writing.
10. All hurricanes form over water and last about 10 days.

Random Facts 19

1. The oyster is usually ambisexual. It begins life as a male and becomes female. It may go back and forth many times.
2. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults laugh 15-100 times a day.
3. One thousand tonnes of meteor dust falls to Earth each day.
4. A single 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
5. Impurities in gemstones give them their colour.
6. If you remove the pip, the flavour of the olive will be diminished.
7. Babies have taste buds all over the insides of their mouths, not just on their tongue.
8. One of the best ways to clean pewter is to rub with cabbage leaves.
9. Iceberg lettuce, until the 1920’s was called ‘criphead’.
10. About 10kg of milk is needed to make one kilogram of natural cheese.

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