It strikes me as odd some of the things that animals have in common with humans. But what strikes me as even odder, is the things that set us apart. Take for instance that butterflies taste with their feet!

Now I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t particularly like to taste with my feet. All I would be tasting during the day would be socks, and I don’t presume that they would be particularly appetizing :S

Did you know though, that a koala bears fingerprints are virtually indistinguishable from a humans. In some cases, the resembalence between the species fingerprints have even been confused at crime scenes!!

Every day (or night would be more precise) we sleep. The average person falls to sleep within seven minutes of switching off their light and slips into a REM cycle (or Rapid Eye Movement) in which, you begin to dream.

But did you know that amazingly we will forget 90% of our dreams once we have been awake for ten minutes?

People who have been born blind cannot see images when they dream, instead they feel emotions and their other senses, whereas people who have become blind after birth can still see images whilst they sleep.

It is also common belief that people have experienced at least one precognitive dream or have experienced déjà vu. The percentage of persons that believe precognitive dreaming is possible, ranges from a massive 63% to 98%.

If you want to remember more of your dreams, it is recommended that you get a dream diary. This is a notebook that you can keep close by, and write in it as soon as you wake up when the dreams are fresh in your head.

Following on from a blog I did last week about dating site ‘Beautifulpeople.com’ I read an interesting fact this week about dating sites. Apparently, Thirty-five percent of the people who sign up to a site with the intention of dating, are already married!!

Shocking isn’t it?

‘Are you married’ isn’t usually a question one thinks to ask when meeting someone on a first date, so good luck to all those singleton’s out there who are actually looking for love online this year!

Hello all!

Christmas is only a few days away and already I have shared with you facts about Santa and White Christmases, so I shall move on from Christmas and look to the New Year for the final ‘little did you know’ of 2009.

Many traditions are held for New Years, including linking arms and singing Auld Lang Syne at midnight, and also first footers who are supposed to be males are to enter the house bearing gifts of bread and coal. Red heads and women are not supposed to be the first footers into a house, neither are blond men as these are considered to be bad luck. Seems slightly mean and sexist, but that’s the tradition apparently.

The tradition that I have decided I would like to try this year comes from Mexico. Did you know that in Mexico, to wear red underwear on New Years Eve is said to bring you new love in the New Year?

Purely for scientific purposes of course I think I will test that theory out, and let you all know if it works this time next year!

Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I don’t know about everyone else, but I am definitely dreaming of a white Christmas!

But did you know that for England to declare a white Christmas, only one snowflake has to fall on the top of the London Weather Center on 25th December…

How bizarre!

Fingers crossed for this year!

Alcohol!

Many of us drink it, but did you know that 10% of the Russian government’s income comes from selling vodka?

I know that many of you would have been disappointed after missing out on some fun facts last week due to my illness, so this week I am treating you to not one but two facts to blow your mind and expand on that randomly pointless knowledge that the world has to offer.

My first fact this week is in regards to the illnesses that are floating around at the moment.

Did you know that at the North Pole, you cannot catch a cold in Winter? you could also not contract the flu, or most other viruses and germs because the temperature is so low that none of the standard Micro-organisms can survive.

And the second fact is something that I read recently and don’t really want to believe but, did you know that banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour? Even if bangng your head repeatedly against a wall did use up 150 calories, I don’t think you would be in any state to enjoy the benefits, so please don’t use this as an excuse to ignore the warnings about a loss of brain cells being caused by such activities.

Alex Darke, never knowingly understated, is well-known as a man of many talents; arguably one of the region’s most fertile men (ladies beware!). On our nights out without question ‘He’s The Greatest Dancer’ we’ve ever seen but last night, at the MIN Awards, he showed us something we never expected… this Cuckoo proper took flight.

With Halloween dawning on us tomorrow, you’d think I would produce a fun fact about something supernatural or ghostly… but alas, I have decided that this information was far more important:

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo…No one knows the reason for this

This week, my little ‘did you know’ made me scared of donkeys and less afraid of flying! how do the two connect you ask? Well…

Did you know that annually, more people are killed by donkeys than die in plane crashes!?