Showing posts with label did you know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label did you know. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 March 2020

General Knowledge: 2



Hello to one and all.
Happy Tuesday!

I am back with new general knowledge facts. Only this time, I am focusing on animals.

Here are 15 interesting facts about animals:

  1. Rabbits like licorice.
  2. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear, plus cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
  3. Birds need gravity to swallow.
  4. A dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph).
  5. The movie "Babe" was played by over 50 pigs.
  6. At birth Dalmatian dogs are born white.
  7. Reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube.
  8. Horses have 18 more bones than humans.
  9. Sharks never stop moving, even when they are sleeping or resting.
  10. Snakes cannot blink.
  11. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand.
  12. Zoophobia is the fear of animals.
  13. All owls lay white eggs.
  14. Lion's cannot roar until the age of 2 years old.
  15. Deers do not like hay.
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Friday, 6 December 2019

General Knowledge:1



Hello to one and all.
Happy Friday!

I wanted to start a blog about general knowledge that you may not have known about.
For this post, I will be adding 15 facts you may not have known, and then the next General Knowledge post I will either add more or less facts. What I want to try is categorize the facts instead of having different groups of facts.

Here are the 15 interesting facts to try out - it is not grouped:

  1. There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo.
  2. Everyday is a holidays somewhere in the world.
  3. The most common mental illness are anxiety and depression
  4. Almonds are members of the peach family.
  5. VHS stands for Video Home System.
  6. Germany borders 9 other countries.
  7. Christmas trees originated from Germany.
  8. The first full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  9. Instant coffee was invented in 1901.
  10. Tokyo was once known as Edo.
  11. Isaac Newton invented the cat door.
  12. New York was once called New Amsterdam.
  13. Paper money was first used in China.
  14. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa.
  15. The first toothbrush was invented in 1498.

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