Fun Facts – 27 July 2016

•  The longest time between two twins being born is 87 days.
• The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. It’s 10 metres underwater.
• In 2007, an American man named Corey Taylor tried to fake his own death in order to get out of his cell phone contract without paying a fee. It didn’t work.
• The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640s (they were found at Dudley Castle), and were made from animal and fish intestines.
• In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
• Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.
• Most Muppets are left-handed. (Because most Muppeteers are right-handed, so they operate the head with their favoured hand.)
• Casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese that contains live maggots.
• The spikes on the end of a stegosaurus’ tail are known among paleontologists as the “thagomizer” — a term coined by cartoonist Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side drawing.
• The northern leopard frog swallows its prey using its eyes — it uses them to help push food down its throat by retracting them into its head.

Courtesy of buzzfeed.com