Weird facts to tell your friends around a braai
The man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
Here are 15 incredibly weird facts that you would just love to tell your friends and family around a braai over the weekend.
• Two twins have been reported as being born 87 days apart.
• Just like fingerprints, we each have our own tongue print.
• Light travelling at the speed of light, is not always the case. The slowest speed which light has ever been recorded as moving, is 61 kilometres per hour.
•Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that consists out of live maggots. The maggots can jump out of the cheese while you’re eating it.
• The loneliest creature on earth ? A whale who ‘s voice is so high pitched and different to other whales, that they simply do not respond.
• During World War Two, British submarine HMS Trident crew kept a grown reindeer called Pollyanna aboard their boat for six weeks.
• The northern leopard frog swallows its prey with the help of its eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat.
• In 1567, the man with the longest beard died a strange death when he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.
• The first American film where a toilet was flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
• One opera house on the U.S.– Canada border has one stage is in one country and the other half in another.
• The largest snowflake measured 15 inches across.
• There is a glacier called “Blood Falls” in Antarctica, where it seems like the ice is bleeding, (It is in actual fact oxidised salty water.)
• There is one single mega-colony of ants that spans over three continents, covering Europe, the west coast of the United States and the west coast of Japan.
• The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth, not with toothpaste, but with urine.
• There are around 60 000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. Laying them out, end to end would enable them to stretch around the world more than twice.
Source: www.buzzfeed.com – 42 Incredibly Weird Facts You’ll Want To Tell All Your Friends
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