There are more chickens than people

A reports suggest that there are around 19 billion chickens on Earth, and around 7.5 billion people. That's around 3 chickens to every 1 human!

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The Beatles used the word 'love' 613 times in their songs

However, the word ‘You’ ranks the highest, appearing 2,262 times in their songs. On the opposite scale - the word ‘Yay’, ‘Wah-hoo’ and ‘Poop’ are only used once.

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Smiling uses more muscles than frowning

Scientists have analysed the muscles used for both facial expressions, and to do a small smile generally uses 10 muscles; a small frown uses 6. So don’t be lazy, turn that from upside-down!

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Cats sleep 70% of their lifes

Cats are usually “crepuscular” - meaning that they are mostly active during dawn and the dusk - spending around 13-16 hours of their day cat napping.

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A ten gallon hat holds 3/4 of a gallon

The gallon in "ten gallon hat" derives from the Spanish galón meaning braid. So a ten-gallon hat is a hat with a braiding around the brim.

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Four year old girls ask around 390 questions a day

At the other end of the spectrum, nine-year-old boys ask around 144 questions per day.

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On average, your hair grows 0.4mm per day

That’s around 6 inches a year… Each hair grows for about 2 years, before it enters the ‘telogen phase’ and starts to shed.

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Penguins are able to jump 3 meters high

Whilst penguins are unable to fly… Adelie penguins can jump up to 3 meters high out of water - which is as tall a 2 average sized women!

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Goldfish can't close their eyes

They give a new meaning to saying - ‘sleeping with one eye open’, as they don’t have eyelids!

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Picasso's first word was a Spanish word for pencil

‘Piz’, is short for ‘lápiz’ (the spanish word for pencil).

Picasso’s father was an art professor, but had given up painting by the time Pablo turned 13 as he felt his son had already surpassed his skill.

Picasso probably painted with watercolours before he could scribble too!

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A 3,300 year old cheese was found in an Egyptian tomb

It was discovered in Ptahmes tomb - mayor of Memphis, Egypt’ in 2010. Researchers discovered that an interesting mix of cow, sheep and goats milk went into the process of creating it. It also contained traces of the lethal bacteria Brucella Melitnis - so a good job the archeologists didn’t indulge in a celebratory nibble.

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Pigs can't look up

… It’s physically impossible down to the antonymy of their neck muscles. The only options left for aspiring ‘bird watching-pigs’ is to lie down on their backs or attach them-selfs to helium balloons!

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Snails can sleep for 3 years

When the weather’s not suitable for them, snails go ‘into hibernation mode’.

On average snails sleep for 13-15 hours, which then gives them the energy to stay awake for 30 hours.

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Salvador Dali designed the Chupa Chups logo

The surrealist artist was approached by Chupa Chups in 1969 to design the logo, the result was a typographic mark and incorporated it into a daisy shape. Instead of printing the logo on its side - he suggested that it be placed on top of the product - as the logo would always be seen intact.

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The average person relocates 11 times

A Census Bureau survey suggests that the average American will move 11.4 times in their lifetime. Based on the average American’s lifespan - that’s once every 6.8 years.

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Reading about yawning will make you yawn.

DId you yawn? Studies have found that certain people are more susceptible to ‘contagious yawning’ than others. As you age, you are less likely to be susceptible.

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Golf was the first sport played on the moon.

During the Apollo 14 mission (January 1971), Alan Shepard smuggled a ‘golf club head’ onto the mission, and before departing took a 2 giant swings for man-kind - and as he put it, the ball travelled for '“miles and miles”.

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The brain is around 75% water.

…And drinking enough water helps keep it that way. If the brain is dehydrated by as much as 2 percent, it can effect concentration, memory and motor skills.

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Right handed people live longer than left handed.

Research shows that on average, the generally ‘right handed’ live until 68.7 years old, whilst the generally ‘left’ die at 67.4. You could say they’ve been ‘dealt a bad hand’.

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Ringo translates as apple in Japanese.

A Japanese apple juice company exploited The Beatle’s connection, and commissioned some weird tv commercials Starring Ringo himself!

Ringo’s connection with apples doesn’t end there - ‘Apple’ is the name of a record label, which he co-founded with the Beatles in 1968.

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The space between your eyebrows is called the 'glabella'

“The skin of the glabella can be used to measure skin turgor in suspected cases of dehydration by gently pinching and lifting it. A dehydrated patient's glabella tends to remain extended ("tented") rather than returning to its normal shape.”

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Kissing for 1 minute burns 2 calories.

That’s double your metabolic rate! Kissing boasts other health benefits such as washing bacteria off your teeth and strengthening your immune system. So pucker up and get healthier!

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The longest beard was 5.33 metres long.

That's longer than 3 average-sized men stood on top of each other! This magnificent mane took Hans Langseth 53 years to grow, and is now on display at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC

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