Fact #79

Humans share 50 percent of their DNA with bananas.

Fact #75

An octopus has three hearts.

Fact #72

By law, beer commercials in America are disallowed from showing people drinking beer.

Fact #69

Giraffes never lie down.

Fact #68

You can’t belch in space — there is no gravity to separate gas from liquid in your stomach.

Fact #67

The Southern Right Whale has the largest testicles of any living being on earth, with each pair weighing around a ton.

Fact #66

Sound travels five times faster in water than in air.

Fact #61

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

Fact #58

Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the senses get cross-wired. Stimulation of one sense causes stimulation of another. If you have synesthesia, you may see colours when you hear a sound, or you can taste words!

Fact #55

When Leonardo da Vinci died, King of France, Francis I, used the Mona Lisa to decorate his bathroom.

Fact #54

Ice-cream headache, also called brain freeze, cold-rush or Iceberger’s syndrome, is the headache you experience after eating something extremely cold. The phenomenon has a medical name: sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

Fact #53

If you begin to count from one and spell out all the numbers as you go, you won’t get to use the letter “A” until you have reached 1,000.

Fact #52

The present 50-star American flag was designed by a 17-year-old Ohio high-school student Robert G Heft for a class project. His teacher gave him a B– for his work.

Fact #51

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only person in the world to have survived two nuclear blasts. He was present in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the nukes were dropped. He died in 2010, aged 93.

Fact #50

In 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant, fell 33,000 feet in an aircraft explosion and survived. She now holds the Guinness world record for the highest free-fall without a parachute.

Fact #48

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Fact #46

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:  Spades – King David, Clubs – Alexander the Great, Hearts – Charlemagne, and Diamonds – Julius Caesar.

Fact #44

Each nostril of a human being registers smell in a different way. Those by the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.

Fact #41

Leonardo Da Vinci never signed or dated his most famous painting, the Mona Lisa.

Fact #39

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.