Some Interesting Facts – Did You Know?

I love random interesting facts, so I gathered you a bunch. Some are from National Geographic Kids’s book- 5,000 Awesome Facts. For example, the one about the calcium in our bones…seriously I did not make that up!

Did you know…

• 11% of people are left handed 
• It’s considered rude to write in red ink in Portugal
• August has the highest percentage of births
• Unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it
• The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
• Although the Bobcat is rarely seen, it is the most common wildcat in North America.
• A cat’s tail contains nearly 10 percent of all the bones in its body
• The calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood comes from ancient explosions of giant stars
• You can buy eel flavored ice cream in Japan
• There are more than 1200 water parks in North America
• Less than 1 per cent of Antarctica is ice-free