Fun Facts – 20 July 2016

• Studies show that sandwiches actually taste better when other people make them for you – when we make food ourselves, we get desensitised to the smell
• When people talk to themselves in the third person, they are able to better control their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour
• The Rubik’s Cube actually has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.
• Astronomers have discovered a planet which rains glass sideways, giving it a blue hue. Its named “HD189733b”
• Eating more carrots and tomatoes can give you a healthy looking tan.
• A sleeping human brain can still understand the words being spoken around it.
• The younger you are when you start drinking, the more likely you are to have a problem with alcohol.
• Tiger attacks are still a serious issue in India: the Sundarbans suffer between 30 and 100 attacks a year.
• Jellyfish have lived on this planet for more than 650 million years, long before the dinosaurs, making them the oldest multi-organ animal.
• The word “queue” is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
• The dates 4/4, 6/6, 10/10 and 12/12 all fall on the same day of the week every year. They’re called doomsdays.

Courtesy of interestingfacts.com