Fact No.459

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

Fact No.458

Approximately every 11 years, the sun reverses its overall magnetic polarity: its north magnetic pole becomes a south pole, and vice versa.

Fact No.457

Mount Everest has its own 3G wireless network.

Fact No.456

Mercury and Venus have no moons.

Fact No.455

If a rooster is not present in a flock of hens, a hen will often take the role, stop laying, and begin to crow.

Fact No.454

Half the worlds population are under 25.

Fact No.453

More than 2/3 of people admit to having urinated in a public pool.

Fact No.452

68% of all UFO sightings are by men.

Fact No.451

There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.

Fact No.450

More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.

Fact No.449

Human Tapeworms can grow up to 23m long

Fact No.448

Every second approximately 100 lightning strikes hit the ground around the world.

Fact No.447

The average man (80kg) would weigh over 2000kg on the surface of the sun, but only 5.3kg on Pluto.

Fact No.446

Over 2,500 left handed people are killed per year, from using products made for right handed people.

Fact No.445

Apples are 25% air.

Fact No.444

In the year 2000 Pope John Paul II because an honorary Harlem Globetrotter.

Fact No.443

The three-toed sloth can swivel its neck around 270 degrees.

Fact No.442

The sun produces so much energy, that every second the core releases the equivalent of 100 nuclear bombs.

Fact No.441

Given sufficient motivation, the Harjack Spider can produce enough silk to suffocate the average human infant in a matter of minutes.

Fact No.440

It has been confirmed that there is water on the moon.

Fact No.439

A car driver uses more energy and creates more air pollution in just 4 years than a public transportation passenger in 40 years.

Fact No.438

There's a condition that can cause teenagers to sleep for weeks on end.

Fact No.437

In the arctic circle you can take a mortgage out to buy a fir coat.

Fact No.436

The royal coat of arms for the United Kingdom mainly features a lion and a unicorn standing for England and Scotland respectively.

Fact No.435

Cows produce around 90 percent of the milk in the world.

Fact No.434

The force required to break a carrot stick is the same required to break your finger.

Fact No.433

Each kidney contains 1 million individual filters. They filter an average of around 1.3 liters (2.2 pints) of blood per minute, and expel up to 1.4 liters (2.5 pints) a day of urine.

Fact No.432

Polonium is the only component of cigarette smoke to produce cancer in laboratory animals.

Fact No.431

Carbon is made inside of stars although it was not produced in the big bang.

Fact No.430

Cats have a top speed of about 30 mp/h (48.28 km/h).

Fact No.429

The first of January was a highly significant year in medieval superstitions regarding prosperity,  or lack of it, in the year ahead. A flat cake was put on one of the horns of a cow in every farmyard. The farmer and his workers would then sing a song and dance around the cow until the cake was thrown to the ground. If it fell in front of the cow that signified good luck; to fall behind indicated the bad luck was on it's way.