Random Fun Facts  
  • You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other.

  • American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.

  • Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.

  • Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.

  • The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours.

  • It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland.

  • It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.

  • There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies.

  • Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).

  • The skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight.

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