*~Just for fun!~*

So this week I've been kind of bored with varsity work... I just can't seem to get motivated with any of these massive assignments we've been given. So, I decided to find some fun and interesting facts to share with you :)

I bet you didn't know:

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
• The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top (I have to try this!!!).
• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying (Doesn't work with me).
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries...)
• Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
• Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood (That's just sad).
• There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them (Hahaha!!!!).
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo (Shame man).
• Weatherman Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald.
• If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. (Who was the sadist who discovered this??)
• Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
• The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
• The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
• Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
• Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a hehe).
• Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Hope you enjoyed reading these, I know it certainly helped distract me from my other important work, but at least I learnt something :)