Wednesday 23 October 2013

Quirky Facts #9


Quirky Facts is back! Seeing as I haven't done so in quite a while, I decided to inform you guys with some weird facts :)


A full head of human hair is strong enough to support 12 tons
- Cats sleep for 70% of their lives
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" uses all the letters of the English alphabet
- Apples are more efficient than coffee for keeping people awake in the morning
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite
- Octopuses have three hearts
- If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne it will rise and fall continuously
- A cockroach can live up to nine days without its head, until it starves to death
- Pearls dissolve in vinegar
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel
- The dot above the letter 'i' is called a tittle

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