Fascinating Facts and Trivia

An estimated 50% of all gold ever mined on Earth came from a single plateau in South Africa: Witwatersrand.

75% of the world’s diet is produced from just 12 plant and five different animal species.

The wood frog can hold its piss for 8 months.

E is the most common letter and is used in 11% of all English words.

If a female ferret does not have sex for a year, she will die

1% of all women can achieve full orgasm just by stimulating their breasts.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe beside him.

Coffee radically changes tastes, which is why many people love to eat something sweet with this drink.

15% of the air breathed on the London Underground contains only human dead skin cells.

Hartlepool, once elected a football mascot – a monkey – as its mayor. He beat Labour’s Peter Mandelson to the job!