- Identical twins do not have the same fingerprints. This is because environmental factors that occur during womb development such as the length of the umbilical cord, the position of the womb, and the rate of finger growth have an impact on your fingerprints.
2. The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
3.The world’s oldest dog title belongs to an Australian dog called Bluey who lived to the ripe old age of 29.5 years old.
4. Finland is the happiest country on Earth. According to the World Happiness Report, it has been for six consecutive years.
5. A shrimp’s heart is in its head. Due to the nature of their open circulatory system, shrimp have no arteries so their organs just float around in blood.
6. The Spanish national anthem has no words. The “Marcha Real” has no official lyrics, a feature shared by the national anthems of Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
7. You can’t hum while you’re pinching your nose.
8. It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbows.
9. In Switzerland, it is illegal to own one guinea pig or parrot .The Swiss law dictates that guinea pigs must be kept in groups of two or more as they are social creatures.
10. Pound cake is called that because the original recipe used one pound of each ingredient.
11. Male giraffes will taste a female giraffe’s urine to see if she is ready to mate.
12. Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn. In Celtic mythology, the unicorn was a symbol of purity and innocence, as well as masculinity and power.
13. The longest walkable distance on the planet is between Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan, Russia. The route is 22,387 kilometres, and it takes 4,492 hours of travel to cross, i.e. 187 days of non-stop walking or 561 days of walking 8 hours a day by way of Suez Canal, Turkey, Central Asia and across Siberia (crossing 16 different countries.)
14. You cannot fold a piece of A4 paper more than eight times. As the number of layers doubles each time, the paper rapidly gets too thick and too small to fold.
15. The Eiffel Tower gets taller in the summer. When the iron heats up, the tower can be up to 15 centimetres taller due to thermal expansion.
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