Facts of Life!

Did you know that...

Fishing is the biggest participant sports in the world.

Football (soccer) is the most attended or watched sport in the world.

A baseball ball has exactly 108 stitches, a cricket ball has between 65 and 70 stiches.

A fathom is 1,8 metres (6 feet).

The most populated city in the world - when major urban areas are included - is Tokyo, with 30 million residents.

Tokyo was once known as Edo.

Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.

Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.Carrots have zero fat content.

Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.

An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell.

Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.

A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.

The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.

The world's smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky."

An annoyed camel will spit at a person.

Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.

A house fly lives only 14 days.

Sharks are immune to all known diseases.

Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.