Fun Facts – 09 November 2016
- The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 11 km/hr
- The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the “water displacing” substance
- Rabbits can live up to ten years
- The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days
- The chances of making two holes-in-one in a round of golf are one in 67 million
- It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960’s car did.
- The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal
- There are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year
- Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world
- The word “moose” comes from the native Algonquian Indian word meaning “twig eater.”