Quirky Facts #11

- 750,000 camels roam the Australia's deserts. One of the largest herds on earth

- In 2007, it was estimated that 22% of Australians are ancestors of convicts

- Tanzania, South Africa and Zimbabwe all share the same national anthem, "Mungu Ibariki Afrika" (God Bless Africa)

- There are probably more than 100 billion galaxies in the cosmos

- The faster you move, the heavier you get. If you run really fast, you gain weight. Not permanently, or it would make a mockery of diet and exercise plans, but momentarily, and only a tiny amount

- The grey whale migrates more than 10,000 miles each year, more than any other mammal on earth

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