Yes, here I go again with some more interesting facts that will help you win friends and influence people. Maybe a slight exaggeration but these facts certainly do trigger those ‘really!’ moments, and may even provide you with the winning answer to your local pub quiz or the £1million prize in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
1. Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan.
2. There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
3. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
4. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
5. German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
6. Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
7. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
8. The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids.
9. The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee. Lovely thought!
10. And finally, most soccer players run 7 miles in a game. And if you are the goalkeeper on the end of a 10-0 defeat then you dive the equivalent of 7 miles!
Sometimes personal blogs and blogs related to business can take themseleves a little too seriously. I will do my best to reflect my personality in my blog with a mixture of business, my own personal experiences and things that are a little light hearted and bring a smile to our day.
I’ll kick things off in this blog entry with some ‘interesting facts’. Now, although I can’t personally vouch for the validity of all these facts they do make interesting reading and could come in handy at your next Pub Quiz.
Hang on to your hats and here goes:
1. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
2. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
3. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
4. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
5. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or nothing”.
6. The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.
7. The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.
8. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.
9. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
10. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
And my personal favourite: (The following also applies to paintings of people on horses.)
11. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.
Watch out for more of these ‘interesting facts’ in future blog entries.