- In Switzerland, you can hire scary clowns to terrify children.
- It’s impossible to lick your elbow.
- The first shoelace was invented in England in 1790, and the second was invented soon after. (Before that, shoes had buckles.)
- Your belly-button is basically an old scar … that can grow more than 60 different types of bacteria. (Yuck!)
- In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders.
- You were once the youngest person on the planet, at the moment of your birth. Amazing, eh?
- If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
- Octopuses have three hearts, blue blood, shape-shifting skin, and eight arms that can move independently. Plus their brains are so advanced that each arm can think on its own. Go figure!
- Although it accounts for only about 2 percent (1/50th) of your bodyweight, your brain uses up to 20 percent (1/5th) of your body’s energy and oxygen!
- The only country whose name begins with an A but doesn’t also end in A, is Afghanistan.
- 73% of the people who read this list will try (in vain) to lick their elbows.
