Fun Facts – 08 October 2014

– An individual banana is called a finger. A bunch of bananas is called a hand.

– Elephants have been known to die of a broken heart, especially when they are young and have been separated from their family/social group.

– Caterpillars almost completely liquify before morphing into butterflies

– The human eye can distinguish more shades of green than any other colour

– Allodoxaphobia is the fear of hearing the opinions of other people

– If you pour a handful of salt into a full glass of water, the water level will actually go down, rather than overflowing the glass

– In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh

– A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word ‘Facebook’

– The 31-ounce ‘trent a’ cup at Starbucks is larger than the average capacity of the human stomach

– The “I’m feeling lucky” button costs Google an average of $110 million every year

Courtesy of sotruefacts.com