Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Tanks were so called because the Army were developing them for the War in secret and put out a story that they were working on mobile water tanks and the name stuck-Little Willie was the world's first tank built in 1915 having a dig at the Kaiser whose son called Wilhelm (STOP SNIGGERING AT THE BACK THERE!) and followed by Big Willie(LOOK, I HAVE A DETENTION BOOK!) or the Mark 1. Later we developed the Chieftain and Challenger which is the latest one.

The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day! (unless it is thinking that Ant and Dec are actually talented then it is considerably more)

The heart of a blue whale is so massive that a human being can swim through its arteries.

Yet its throat is no bigger than a saucer.

For every person in the world there are around 1.6 million ants.

The overall weight of all these ants is equal to the combined weight of the world’s human population.

Originally, Feng shui was the art of choosing an appropriate place for a grave.

The wrinkles that appear on the skin of your hands (after taking a bath, for example) play an important role.

This phenomenon is caused by the fact that when your body encounters an increased amount of moisture it understands that the environment might be slippery.

So the skin on your hands immediately begins to change in a way that will make it easier for you to grip smooth surfaces.

The groove between the nose and upper lip is called the philtrum.

This tiny indent is a residual reminder of time spent in your mother’s womb.

The two sides of your face develop independently of one another and come to meet in the middle of your face, creating the philtrum.

When these two sides fail to fuse properly, which happens in one out of every 750 births, the result is a cleft palate.

The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.

Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

Buckingham Palace has over six hundred rooms.

There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.

Volvo gave away the 1962 patent for their revolutionary three-point seat belt for free, in order to save lives.