Did You Know !

Do please share in the comments - did you / do you know these five facts?

1. Crows often hold grudges against specific people.
Crows are excellent at recognizing people’s faces and are able to remember people for a long time! This can be either a negative or positive fact, depending on how nice you are to them.
While crows can tell us apart, we would find it difficult to distinguish one crow from another.

2.You get Goosebumps when you’re scared to make yourself look bigger.
If you look at a cat that’s facing off against a dog, you’ll often see its hair standing on edge. But you don’t see the Goosebumps hidden underneath their fur, which they also get when they’re scared.

Goosebumps are a reaction to increased adrenaline, which is why we get Goosebumps when cold or emotional. Although we don’t really need them now, our ancestors would have needed them when facing off against large beasts before the age of humanity began!

3. On average, men get bored of a shopping trip after 26 minutes.
Meanwhile, women don’t get tired of shopping until around 2 hours have passed! On top of this, it’s been found that eight in ten men hate shopping with their partner.

Men who are promised a treat at the end of a joint shopping trip are likelier to pretend to enjoy shopping with their partner for longer.

4. Honeybees can recognize human faces.
For a long time, we believed that only large-brained mammals could distinguish faces. But the humble honeybee shook that theory up!

Bees can distinguish between many different flowers, so it was theorized that they might tell people apart. Scientists discovered that honeybees could recognize a familiar face, even days after being trained to do so.

Fun Fact: Bees see faces in a compilation of 5,000 individual images – kind of like pixels.

5. Human blood cells have different lifespans.
Red blood cells circulate the human body for about four months. In comparison, white blood cells range from a few hours to several days.

Platelets circulate the body for about nine days. Platelets are cells that circulate our blood, and they bind together when they find damaged blood vessels.

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I can relate to number three, and I did know number five.

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All the best Jan