- Barbie’s life-size measurements would be 39-23-33, standing 7 feet 2 inches tall, with a neck twice as long as a normal human.
- Prawns breed at a ratio of seven females to one male.
- You have 100 trillion nerve connections in your brain! Each neuron has ‘branches’ that connect to other neurons and that’s how information is transmitted.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- 150 years ago it took 25 men all day to harvest and thresh a ton of grain. With a combine harvester, a single person can do it in six minutes – a 2500-percent increase in productivity.
- ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand – and ‘lollipop’ with your right.
- Average calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska’s annual Iditarod race: 10,000.
- Around 17% of people who read this list will try typing the word ‘lollipop’ using only their right hand.
