Fun Facts – 18 May 2016

• If you are struck by lightning, your skin will be heated to 28,000 degrees Centigrade, hotter than the surface of the Sun.
• If you trace your family tree back 25 generations, you will have 33,554,432 direct ancestors.
• Windmills always turn counter-clockwise.
• Albert Einstein didn’t wear socks.
• Queen Lydia Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. She was also the only Queen the United States ever had.
• The coconut is the largest seed in the world.
• The first soap powder, produced in 1907, was made with Perborate and Silicate – hence its brand name, Persil.
• Because of the rotation of earth you can throw a ball farther to the west than to the east.
• The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in their correct order.

Courtesy of 99facts.com