Did you know?

- Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails

- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

- If you rub an onion on your foot – within 30 – 60 minutes you will be able to taste it – this is because it travels through the blood stream

- You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath (if you hold it until you go unconscious, you begin to breath normally as soon as you do)

- On one square inch of human skin there are 20 million microscopic creatures

- Armadillos are the only creatures apart from men that can catch leprosy – there are known cases of armadillo to human transfers of the disease

- A snail can sleep for 3 – 4 years – during which period it does not need food

- To test if a pearl is real, you can rub vinegar on it – the composition of the pearl will cause it to bubble furiously

- Goldfish kept in a dark room turn much paler – and if it wasn’t for the color in the food they eat, they would turn completely white

- Unlike normal bees, the Queen bee’s stinger is not barbed and can be used repeatedly without harming her

- Quicksand doesn’t directly kill humans as it is usually not very deep at all – it is the fact that it can be incredibly difficult to remove yourself from quicksand that causes death by the environment – such as exposure.

Oysters can change between being female or male

Food trivia

· The onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl

· Potato crisps were invented by a North American Indian called George Crum

· The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year!

· During a lifetime the average person eats about 35 tonnes of food

· The first breakfast cereal ever produced was shredded wheat

· There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water

· Cream is lighter than milk

· You're more likely to be hungry if you're cold! Temperature can affect your appetite.

· So, as long as you're active, and burning of calories, calories shouldn't have too much of a chance to turn into fat.

· Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite

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