After leaving for a very looong time, it's now time again for my 10 weekly trivia. (it's really weekly now) :)
DID YOU KNOW...
- The blink lasts approximately 0.3seconds? The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking.
- Punctuation marks weren't used in writing until the 15th century?
- It takes sharks about seven days to replace a tooth?
- An adult mayfly eats nothing at all and lives for only a day? In this short time it is so busy mating and laying eggs that it does not have time for food.
- The magic word "Abracadabra!" was originally said to people to cure hay fever?
- A crocodile can't stick its tongue out?
- Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time?
- The word 'dinosaur' comes from the Greek words for 'terrible lizard'?
- The largest prime number discovered would need around 1,800 pages to write down?
- When Elzie Segar first created Popeye comics in his strip thimble theater back in 1929, the main star was Olive Oyl and not the Spinach-eating sailor.
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