Excerpt from Blades of Eternity
Kyouhei mimicked Clow’s moving lips and realized that he was running into his downfall. He skidded to a stop, using his katana as support just before a barrier of fire appeared.
Fun Facts
This page is devoted to providing you with random, but interesting, facts ranging from a variety of topics. Use the navigation below to skip to a certain category.- Animals & Plants
- Astronomy & Weather
- Food
- Health Science
- History
- Literature & Language
- Miscellaneous
- Sports
- Technology
Animals & Plants
- There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.
- Slugs have four noses.
- Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as any other colour.
- Tigers have striped skin AND striped fur.
- Starfish have multiple eyes; one at the end of each leg.
- An octopus has 3 hearts.
- Polar bear hair is not white. It's transparent and hollow.
- Gorillas stick out their tongues when they're angry.
- The average caterpillar has approximately 2000 muscles in its body. The average human has less than 700.
- Besides humans and other primates, koalas are the only animals that have fingerprints.
- Humans are the only animals that cry tears.
- The gorilla's scientific name is "Gorilla gorilla gorilla".
- The camel's backbone is as straight as the backbone of a horse.
Astronomy & Weather
- A day on Venus is equal to 243 Earth days.
- Only 48% of the Sun's energy actually reaches the earth.
- Most raindrops are round or doughnut shaped and not "raindrop shaped".
Food
- Approximately 75 acres of pizza are consumed daily in the US.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients used to make dynamite.
- Grapes explode in the microwave.
- Honey never goes bad.
Health Science
- A person who lives to age 75 will have slept about 220 000 hours or about 23 years.
- It's supposedly impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- The calories it takes to eat a piece of celery is more than the inital amount of calories in the celery.
- The thigh bones of a healthy full grown adult are stronger than concrete.
History
- The house where Thomas Jefferson wrote most of the Declaration of Independence was torn down and replaced with a hamburger stand.
- Only one person survived the battle of the Alamo.
- Louis XIV bathed once a year.
- The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.
Literature & Language
- The phrase "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses all 26 letters of the alphabet.
- The word "set" has the highest number of separate definitions in the English language: 192.
- Dr. Seuss coined the word "nerd" in his 1950 book, If I Ran the Zoo.
- Charles Dickens always slept facing north because he thought it improved his writing.
- The word "noon" orignally meant 3 PM.
- The nine most used words in the English language are: and, be, it, have, I, of, the, will, you.
Miscellaneous
- A piece of paper can only be folded in half up to 7 times.
- It takes seven standard shuffles to thoroughly mix a 52-card deck.
- There are 364 gifts in "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
Sports
- "Tug of war" was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.
- The average lifespan of a MLB baseball is 5 pitches.
Technology
- The longest word that can be typed on the keyboard, using only the left hand, is "stewardess".
