21 May 2018

Fun Facts for 21 May 2018

Canadians have celebrated today as the Queen’s Birthday, a.k.a. Victoria Day, since 1845.

Belgians consume six kilos of chocolate annually. 

Human bones are 36% water.

The Republic of South Sudan is the planet’s newest country.

People who hang up as the other party answers-because they forgot who they rang-suffer from phonesia. 

Canada Post employs 64,000 people.

Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. 

The tourist tax in Rome is €5 per night, payable at one’s 3-star hotel, upon checkout. 

A 500-gram box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes contains 7,122 individual flakes. 

Victoria Day starts tourist season, and runs to Thanksgiving in October but it is illegal to hunt them.

300,000 Barbadians have the day off in observance of Whit Monday. 

One of the most commonly reported dreams is that of falling. 

In addition to five primary senses, we possess 15 more, including balance, temperature and pain.

A hummingbird’s heart beats more than 1,200 times a minute.

Beelzebug is Satan in mosquito form, buzzing the bedroom at 3AM and cannot be cast out. 

Blueberries ripen after they are picked. 

One out of five occupations require a license to practise professionally in Canada.

The mosquito is an insect that makes one appreciate flies.

Held in Paris, the 1900 Olympic Games lasted five months. 

Accordionation is the art of driving and folding a road map at the same time.