Shocking facts about world
Saint Lucia was discovered by the French after they were shipwrecked on the island.
They arrived on December 13th which is the feast day of Saint Lucy – hence, why they named it Saint Lucia!
3 A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
You read that right – in 1783, the first hot air balloon was launched carrying a sheep, duck, and a rooster.
The flight lasted for 8 minutes before landing safely with its passengers.
4 Honeybees can recognize human faces.
Whereas before it was thought that only large brained mammals could distinguish faces, but honeybees can do this as well!
They see faces in a compilation of 5,000 individual images – kind of like pixels.
5 A swarm of 20,000 bees followed a car for two days because their queen was stuck inside.
When the car parked, the thousands of bees swarmed onto the car and had to be taken off by beekeepers.
The next day, the bees were back on the car because the queen was still inside and the swarm had to be taken off again.
6 Nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Because the temperature in the Antarctic is well below zero, the urine can’t evaporate and just combines with the glaciers.
7 Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.”
The original name was quite a mouthful. It translates to “town of our lady the Queen of Angels of the River Porciuncula.”
8 Octopuses have four pairs of arms.
The six of an octopus’ tentacles serve as arms, while the other two are their “legs.”
They use six tentacles just to eat!
9 The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
Invented in 1787, Levi Hutchins needed a way to wake up in time for work, so he made the alarm clock.
It took almost 100 years for a wind up alarm clock to be invented that could be set to any time.
10 The smallest bone in your body is in your ear.
The stapes is a bone in the middle ear of humans that which helps conduct sound vibrations for identification.
11 Ketchup was a medicine in the early 1800s.
In 1834, American Dr. John Cooke Bennet added tomatoes to ketchup, adding many vitamins and antioxidants to the sauce.
He then branded it as a medicine to cure Diarrhea, Indigestion, Jaundice and Rheumatism.
12 Only 5% of the ocean has been explored.
Alongside this only 1% of the seabed has been discovered and explored.
Sea exploration and mapping didn’t truly start until the 1960s due to the lack of technology beforehand.
13 Grapes are fatally toxic to cats and dogs – even in small amounts.
Despite lots of research into the matter, the exact agent in grapes that causes their toxicity to dogs and cats is still unknown.
All that is known is that they cause acute kidney failure quickly followed by death in dogs and cats.
14 Chocolate may Kill Dog even in small amount.
Chocolate is toxic to dogs (and cats!). While rarely fatal, chocolate ingestion can result in significant illness. Chocolate is toxic because it contains a chemical called theobromine, as well as caffeine. ... Dogs cannot metabolize theobromine and caffeine as well as people can.
15 Every year, the Netherlands sends Canada 20,000 tulip bulbs.
This is done as a way of thanking Canada for their role in liberating the Netherlands from Axis occupation during World War II.
16 Chickens are the closest living relatives to the Dinosaurs.
This was discovered through the intricate reconstruction of the avian genome structure, which discovered that the chicken lineage most closely resembles that of the king of the dinosaurs.
17 QWERTY keyboards were originally supposed to slow down typing.
This was by spacing out commonly used letters so that the typewriters they were fitted to wouldn’t jam as often.
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