If you're bored (like I am right now) and ur itching to learn something new, interesting but rather useless facts, well hey u've come to the right place =D. These are some random facts of life:
- A three year old's voice is louder than two hundred adults in a crowded restaurant.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
- The 'save' icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
- Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head'.
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
- Your hearing is less sharp if you eat too much. (hahaha trust me its true =p)
- Between the ages of thirty and seventy, your nose may lengthen
and widen by as much as a centimetre. (I wonder whether Michael Jackson knew this fact before he had his nosejob lol)
- Sharks never stop moving, even when they sleep.
- Apples are more efficient than caffeine at keeping people awake in the morning.
- The word 'checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'shah mat', which means 'the king is dead'.
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
Sorry if it's lame, im just veryyyyyy bored lol
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