Anyone know any Quite Interesting facts which I might not know?

Question

I have one to start you off: did you know at the beginning of the last century there were around 40,000 tigers in the wild, nowadays it's more like 4000. There are maybe more in tigers in zoos or as pets in Texas as there are in the wild. There were 8 subspecies, 3 have been wiped out since the 1950s and despite conservation efforts it is likely all tigers will be exitinct by the end of this century.

Answer 1

Neither haggis, whisky, porridge, clan tartans or kilts are Scottish.

Answer 2

the 80's band duran duran got their name from the movie barbarella starring jane fonda

Answer 3

The following words do not have any of the 5 common vowels:

by, cry, sky, why, wry, gym, crypt, hymn, lynx, myth, glyph, tryst, nymph, Gypsy, pygmy, flyby, rhythms and syzygy.

Answer 4

Here's an interesting fact which you may not already have in your collection.

Doctor Benjamin Franklin FRS.

When he died he weighed in at a massive 300 pounds.  Obviously never heard the word 'diet', ever in his life.

Think that's an 8 man coffin lift. . . .

Answer 5

There is no word for "blue" in the Homer, the Old Testament, or the Vedas (all written broadly around the same time.)

Homer called the sea "the wine-dark sea".

This suggests all kinds of interesting questions about the way we perceived colour in the past.

The Byzantine throne room in the tenth century AD contained a bronze tree with bronze birds of different species among the leaves, which at the emperor's signal burst into many different types of birdsong.  There were also two bronze lions which opened their mouths to let out a roar.

Another one: the last remaining stuffed dodo was thrown out in the rubbish by the the then director of the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, because it was musty.

As a result we've no idea even how tall the dodo was.

Answer 6

Ronaldo, the Portuguese Man Utd footballer, was named Ronaldo by his parents because they were big fans of Ronald Reagan.

Answer 7

Be prepared to be disgusted:

We swallow up to 7 spiders yearly in our sleep.

Weird right?

Answer 8

bumble bees can't sting (my dad told me when i was little, dunno if its true) x

Answer 9

you cant sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time

Answer 10

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I think they will keep you occupied for a while, Bye and Cheers again.

Answer 11

Did you know the average person loses 88-100 hairs a day

Did you know some peoples brains literally explode without them dieing but if you strain your brain to much it will eventually

Answer 12

A dashboard is so named because it was originally the part of a horse drawn carriage that stopped mud kicked up by the horse (the dash) from hitting the driver and passenger in the carriage.

Answer 13

Sir Isaac Newton invented the cat flap.

Answer 14

There are only three flags in the world that do not contain either red white or blue;

Libya, Mauritania and Jamaica.

The flag of Paraguay is the only flag to have a different design on the front and the back. The obverse ( front ) shows the national seal of the country, the reverse ( back ) shows the national seal of the treasury.

Answer 15

The average salary in the UK is £25,000. If you earn this, you are richer than 97% of the rest of the world.

Answer 16

Henry the 8th had 2 wives - the other 4 didn't count as they were annulled. :)

Humans have 4 nostrils..

The list goes on, but most you find on the internet are absolute cr*p! The site with the thing about "screeched" being the longest one syllable word is untrue..

Answer 17

starfish can turn their tummy inside out

vanessa feltz cant

Answer 18

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.

The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.

David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY

There are only thirteen blimps in the world.

Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.

The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.

Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

The Swiss flag is square.

The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.

Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).

The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.

The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.

If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.

No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.

The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.

Madrid is the only European capital city not situated on a river.

The name for fungal remains found in coal is sclerotinite.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.

Emus cannot walk backwards.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

The shopping mall in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada has the largest water clock in North America.

Both writer Edgar Allen Poe and LSD advocate Timothy Leary were kicked out of West Point.

The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.

The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery.

The German Kaiser Wilhelm II had a withered arm and often hid the fact by posing with his hand resting on a sword, or by holding gloves.

The forward pass was created by the football team at Saint Louis University.

In every show that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks) wrote, there is at least one song about rain.

A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches.

The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu.

Parthenogenesis is the term used to describe the process by which certain animals are able to reproduce themselves in successive female generations without intervention of a male of the species. At least one species of lizard is known to do so.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".

The ship, the Queen Elizabeth 2, should always be written as QE2. QEII is the actual queen.

"Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis."

All of the cobble stones that used to line the streets in New York were originally weighting stones put in the hulls of Belgian ships to keep an even keel.

Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other)

Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it

The only borough of New York City that isn't an island (or part of an island) is the Bronx.

The 1957 Milwaukee Braves were the first baseball team to win the World Series after being relocated.

The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.

Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors.

Answer 19

There are more deer in the US today than when the pilgrims landed.

Corn fed! Also no natural predators, wolf,s and cougars.