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Friday, August 17, 2012

18 Interesting Facts You Probably Didn’t Know by Roxanne Porter


Today I have Roxanne Porter as guest blogger. Please be sure to check out her unique guest post. Guest posts are always welcome, please contact me.

I am always interested in bizarre and strange facts. I don’t know why, exactly, except that I feel like I always learn something new from them. If you are the same way, then you should check out these eighteen weird facts. Hopefully you’ll learn something new!
  1. In a typical lifetime you will spend over six years dreaming.
  2. All animals dream. Dolphins dream (and sleep) on one side of their brain at a time.
  3. You will forget 90% of your dreams within 10 minutes of waking up.
  4. Right-handed people on average live nine years longer than left-handed people.
  5. Every day you breathe in about one quarter of other people’s farts, eat around 3 cockroaches and 2 spiders.
  6. Valentine’s Day has one of the highest suicide rates of the year.
  7. 1 out of 8 couples married this year in the United States met online.
  8. No word in English rhymes with month or orange.
  9. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  10. Giraffes cannot cough and rats cannot vomit.
  11. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
  12. A cow can climb up stairs but can’t come down.
  13. A chicken will not cross a chalk line.
  14. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo and no one knows why.
  15. Having blue eyes is a mutation, before that everyone had brown eyes.
  16. There is a city called Rome on every continent.
  17. Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue. Dogs are colorblind.
  18. Human babies are born without kneecaps.
Well, I hope you found at least some of these facts funny, interesting, or eye-opening. Remember to always keep learning!

Roxanne Porter is a freelancer & a regular contributor for nanny classifieds.
She helps in providing knowledge about nanny services & love writing on nanny related articles. She helps in giving a fair knowledge about nanny Jobs to the community.

You can contact Amanda at her email.

Many thanks to Roxanne.
Enjoy your reading!