Interesting Facts

• No fruit sweets have any actual fruit in them 
• Children in Europe and the USA eat more than twice the recommended amount of salt in their diet everyday.
• A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
• A flat now being built near London's Hyde Park will cost over £80 million!
• One of the smelliest natural molecules is butyl mercaptan - the stink produced by skunks to scare off attackers.
• Today we share the world with over 1.8 billion sheep, 1.3 billion cows, 1 billion pigs and over 13 billion chickens.
• One meal at Masa's in New York will cost you £300.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
• Comets were named after the Greek word for hair, because of their long tails.
• Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number 'one followed by a hundreds.
• Yahoo! is named after characters in Jonathan Swift's Book Gulliver's Travels. A Yahoo is a horrible person who is barely human!
• Most people burp about 10 - 15 times a day.
• A third of all food produced in the UK is simply thrown away.
• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
• In the Middle Ages, people made washing powder from wood ash and urine.
• The German firm Trekstor has created a diamond-crusted, gold-plated MP3 player - yours for just £14,000!
• Rats multiply so quickly that in just 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
• Hot weather makes your hair grow faster.
• The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• In 2001, the US army did some research to develop a stink-bomb to deal with rioters - and they found that the most devastating smell was poo mixed with rotting onions.
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
• Each year Disneyland uses over 5,000 gallons of paint to maintain the clean appearance of the park.
• There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. A leap year has 31,622,400 seconds. Amazing!
• Starfish have no brains.
• An elephant can produce 38-kilogram (83-pound) pile of poop in one go.

The BEST cures for Hiccups

• Eating a tablespoon of peanut butter
• Swallowing a teaspoon of sugar
• Coughing
• Chewing gum
• Gargling
• Drinking water from the far side of the glass (my favourite)
• Breathing into a paper bag
• Pinching your nose while drinking water
• Sneezing
• Drinking water while someone else presses your ears closed
• Laughing
• Exhaling as hard as you can and then holding your breath
• Trying to hiccup as much as you can