Interesting+Facts

​Here are some interesting facts you might not know. Facts found by Farah, Amelia P and Hayley G.

Jiffy, as in I’ll be back in a jiffy is actually a real unit of time. It is equal to one hundredth of a second.  Indonesia recently had a tsunami. After the tsunami, locals thought they had found a dried up mermaid on the beach. The mermaid was apparently dead by the time they had found it.  That our brain is made up of over 75% water  Recently a team of scientists have had a thought that a full moon will effect the behaviour of human beings, making them do things that they normally wouldn’t do .This effects hospitals as their patients will increase much more on a full moon.  The Mona Lisa has no eye brows.  A lighting bolt produces temperatures 5 times hotter than those found at the sun’s surface.  A Kea (bird) eats rubber from cars!  In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum.  The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley gum  A sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur.  Human teeth are almost as hard as rock.  The earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000  Humans when they are born have 300 bones but when they are an adult they only have 206.  Some ribbon worms eat them selves when no food is available.  Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue. <span style="color: #b436ec; font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> The starfish is one of the few animals that can turn there stomach inside out.