1. The Lego Group is the world’s most powerful brand. There are more Lego Mini-figures than there are people on Earth.
2. The tongue is the only muscle in one’s body that is attached from one end.
3. Costa Coffee employs Gennaro Pelliccia as a coffee taster, who has had his tongue insured for £10 million since 2009.
4. IKEA is an acronym which stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the founder’s name, farm where he grew up, and hometown.
5. The unique smell of rain actually comes from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone.
6. More tornadoes occur in the United Kingdom per square mile than any other country in the world.
7. It’s not just humans who are right or left-handed. Most female cats prefer using their right paw and males are more likely to be left-pawed.
8. The Guinness World Record for the time longest spend searching for the Loch Ness Monster is held by Steve Feltham who camped at Loch Ness for 25 years.
9. While dinosaurs roamed the earth, they lived on every continent including Antarctica.
10. Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.
talking of lettuce,
have you tried this green salad recipe,
it's by Mary Berry - more details here
All the best Jan
36 comments:
I've love little facts like these.
Coffee is on and stay safe
...interesting trivia.
I enjoyed your trivia! And knew none of these.
oh I did know about IKEA
"There are more Lego Mini-figures than there are people on Earth."
Let's hope they don't plot a hostile takeover.
Me gusto conocer estos datos conocía alguno como lo del olor a lluvia, pero no sabía lo delas lechugas. Te mando un beso
How interesting, I rather like good trivia.
Some great facts. Almost all sulphur crested cockatoos are left footed.
Some fun facts today. Lettuce and sunflowers? I would never have guessed that! Have a great week, Valerie
Fun facts, a great post.
Great post! ... I would have never thought the Lego Group is the world’s most powerful brand. Sorry to hear many tornadoes occur in the UK.
Have a nice week!
Interesting facts and post.
The salad looks yummy!
Take care, have a happy new week!
Wow on #1. We still have another LEGO-Henry (too tiny for my hands).
#2 I had to eat!!! I "had to"!! MY FIL baked it for us. It was yummy, but my brain said "nooooo". Whose tongue am I biting?! Never had so many potatoes to mantle the "meat"!
Haven´t been to IKEA in ages (just a walk of 5km from here).
Wow on #5!
#6 is scary.
#7 should appear in The Simpsons!
#8... oh, boy... #10 - love it even more now.
Fun read, thank you, very interesting.
I want that salad. I learned something today. Thank you for sharing.
all that i did not know before :)
thank you for sharing ten interesting facts dear Jan .
i think if you keep doing it once in a week i would love to learn more :)
blessings!
Oooh I kind of knew about the rain thing, does 1/2 out of 10 win me a cabbage? Take care and have a great week, Sue xx
Very interesting facts...and I had no idea about lettuce!
I didn't know Ikea was an acronym. And the smell of the earth after rain is called petrichor
I only knew one of these facts and it is the one about the tongue muscle. I was most surprised about the tornadoes, since I live in "Tornado Alley" in the states. Interesting info.
I've love little facts like these.
Coffee is on and stay safe
Love trivia! Interesting about lettuce and sunflower connection
Early 2001-ish, I posted online a picture of the last Lego (small 2 connect dot piece) I stepped on. Now I see other folks are mentioning the last Lego they've stepped on. lol
Very interesting trivia post ~ fascinating ~ thanks ~ Xo
Living in the moment,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Nice info. I did not know any of those.
such fun facts!! i am not going to tell you how many i did not know!!
It was when Steve took a weekend holiday that Nessie did one of her rare appearances. :)
All very interesting facts! I am especially surprised that England has the most tornadoes per square foot!
I knew 1 and 2 but that was it. Very interesting facts.
The most surprising to me was that most tornadoes occur in the United Kingdom!!
The other surprising one was that lettuce is in the sunflower family!!
Fascinating. I knew about the tongue but not that the world was about to be overrun by lego figures. But luckily they are fun and there's not much to worry about. Smile. Happy new week.
I don't remember ever knowing a single one of those facts! I wonder what that says about me.
Informação muito interessante.
Um abraço e boa semana.
Andarilhar
Dedais de Francisco e Idalisa
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It’s great to learn something new, and while I knew a couple of these trivia facts, like the IKEA acronym there were many I learned anew.
Didn't know them except the rain one! Interesting about the cats, I'll need to observe my lot...2 girls and 1 boy. Also my daughter who is nearly 3 is looking like she will be a left hander!
What a wonderful set of facts. The tornadoes surprised me. Re Ikea, I never knew that!xxx
How interesting facts. Great post!
Take care
How fun and interesting!
Todo muy interesante.Besos.
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