- Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
- After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
- A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
- Brazil is the location of the worlds widest road. 160 cars can drive side by side.
- Compact discs (CD) read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
- A butterfly can look at you through 12,000 eyes.
- Europe has no deserts; it is the only continent without one.
- If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
- A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
- If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc.) the total is 5050.
- Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- People say: bless you, when you sneeze because your heart stops for a millisecond.
- A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
- St Teresa of Avila is the patron saint of chess-players.