MUST READ: Facts you need to know

When life tends to be a hustle and bustle, we sometimes need something to make us fascinated with our interesting world again. Whether it be funny, wacky or just outright astonishing.

Blogger, Savannah Cox compiled a list of 100 interesting facts about the world. Here are 25 of the ones that stood out.

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•  When the game, Twister was introduced in 1966 it was denounced by critics as ‘sex in a box’
• Artist, Leonardo da Vinci could draw with his one hand and write with the other at the same time
•  Caterpillars completely liquefy as they transform into moths
•  All clocks in the movie, Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4.30am
• A human will eat an average 70 assorted bugs and 10 spiders while sleeping
• Russia didn’t consider beer to be an alcohol till 2011, before that it was considered a soft drink
• Two-thirds of people on earth have never seen snow
•  A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
•  The woolly mammoth was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were being built
• The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year
• If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die
• It would take 1000 years to watch every video on Youtube
• A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years
• Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries
•  Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
• The number of words posted on Twitter each day will be enough to fill a 10-million word book
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland as he does not wear pants
• You are more likely to die from a fallen coconut than a shark attack
•  Elvis Presley got a ‘C’ in his Grade 8 music class
• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring was not added to it
•  Earth is the only planet not named after a god
•  An ostrich eye is bigger than its brain
•  It would take 1 200 000 mosquitoes, each sucking at once, to completely drain the average human of blood
•  Blue whale fart bubbles are large enough to enclose a horse
•  Only one person in two billion people will live to be older than 116 years old.