Did Ya Know?

By Olivia Pocat

• Rubber bands last longer when they are refrigerated.
• The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.
• The dot over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
• Soccer balls were once used for playing basketball.
• Putting sugar on a cut will make it heal faster.
• The plastic tips of shoelaces are called aglets.
• Rudolph the Reindeer is female.
• Buttermilk doesn’t contain any butter.
• 75 burgers are sold in McDonald’s every second.
• Your eyeballs do not change or grow as you age. 
• A snail has 2,500 teeth.
• Pigeons can’t fart.
• Cats can’t taste anything that’s sweet.
• The average person spends two weeks of their life sitting at traffic lights.
• Australia is wider than the moon by 600 km.
• There aren’t any mosquitoes in Iceland.
• Mushrooms can glow in the dark. 
• The Supreme Court has its own private basketball court called “the highest court in the land”.
• Strawberries are not actually berries.