Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

In every episode of “Seinfeld” there is a Superman picture or reference somewhere.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift apart.

In 19th-century Britain, opium for babies was sold and marketed under the name "Quietness."

Brazil couldn't afford to send its athletes to the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, so they loaded their ship with coffee and sold it along the way.

The only 15 letter word which can be spelled without repeating a single letter is ‘uncopyrightable’

Bob Marley’s birthday (February 6th) is a national holiday in Jamaica.

Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good to lay eggs on to be their caterpillars' food or not.

There are more types of insects in one tropical rain forest tree than there are in the entire state of Vermont.

About 55% of all movies are rated R.

About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India annually.

Dylan Thomas wrote a poem Under Milk Wood and created a fictional Welsh seaside fishing village called llareggub which sounds Welsh until you read it backwards and discover it spells BUGGERALL! It was, he claimed based on a real life village but it was never revealed. Some lay claim to it like Laugharne in Carmarthenshire.

As recently as the 1980s, many researchers and doctors believed that babies couldn’t feel pain, so some were operated on without any anesthesia.

The average person passes by circa 16 murderers, whilst walking, in their lifetime.