Tada! facts.

(1) It was Galileo who discovered that everything does NOT revolve around the Earth.

(2) The rhythm of a hummingbird's heart may be over 600 beats per minute when active, but can slow to 50 beats per minute during resting phases that may last over 8 hours.

(3) There are about 100,000 hairs on the average human head. It’s normal to lose 50 to 100 per day.

(4) The only bird that can fly backward is the humming bird.

(5) The average person blinks about 11,500 times daily. That’s about 4.2 million times per year.

(6) The microwave oven was invented in 1945 by Percy Spencer. His first model was the size of a refrigerator and weighed about 340 kilograms.

(7) A single porcupine may have more than 30,000 individual quills! Contrary to legend, the animal cannot throw its quills; they are only useful as a defense against attack.

(8) Put a frog in boiling water and it'll jump right out. Put it in cool water and heat the water gradually and the frog will just sit there and boil to death.

(9) The magnetic north pole lies in the Baffin Islands of Canada - nearly 1,287 kilometres from the geographic north pole.

(10) Human hair typically grows about 1.25 cm per month, or about 15 cm per year.

(11) There are no penguins in the North Pole, or the South Pole, for that matter! Penguins are found in the coastal areas of Antarctica, but never in the Arctic.