ODD: Every once in a while, we like to share some odd facts, little bits of interesting trivia.
These selections come from the website Best Life.
The Canary Islands are named for dogs, not birds. “Although it’s off the coast of northwestern Africa, the archipelago is actually part of Spain. In Spanish, the area’s name is Islas Canarias, which comes from the Latin phrase Canariae Insulae for ‘island of dogs.’”
Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world. The average height, taking both genders into account, is 5’1.8”. The tallest people in the world live in the Netherlands, where the average adult height is 6 feet.
In this neck of the woods, we’re pretty used to the cold. But according to Best Life, Bradford’s weather has nothing on Antarctica.
“You might think you’re accustomed to frigid air and blustery winds, but the average winter day has nothing on the coldest day ever recorded, which was -144 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature was recorded in Antarctica during a span of research between 2004 and 2016. Just a few breaths of air at that temperature would induce hemorrhaging in your lungs and kill you.”
Yikes.
We found this pretty fascinating, too.
“The flag of Nicaragua features a rainbow in the center that includes a band of purple, while the flag of Dominica boasts a picture of a sisserou parrot, a bird with purple feathers. These elements make them the only two flags in the world that use the color purple.”
Here’s some interesting data about the world’s population: four babies are born on Earth every second, while two people die every second.
The website for The Fact Site gives us even more peculiar things to add to our memory banks.
Pteronophobia is the fear of feathers, feathered objects or being tickled by feathers.
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.
In 2017, more people were killed from injuries caused by taking selfies than from shark attacks.
The average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world in their lifetime, about 110,000 miles
During your lifetime, you will spend around thirty-eight days brushing your teeth.
The Louvre in Paris is so large that it would take 100 days to look at each piece.
Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
