Excerpt from Blades of Eternity

The sound of his footsteps echoed in the mountains as he travelled in the snow. Caught in the updraft, remnants of the snow storm blew past Clow, landing on his bare cheeks.

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

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.