Ten Interesting Tidbits of Knowledge

The word ‘ushers’ contains five pronouns: us, she, he, her and hers.

By the time a glass of champagne goes flat, two million bubbles will have popped.

People suffering from superior canal dehiscence syndrome can hear their own eyeballs moving.

A Gongoozler is a person who stares for a long time at things happening on a canal.

Britons eat 97% of the world’s baked beans.

By the time they leave high school American children will have eaten 1,500 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches.

American bullfrogs’ eyes have special retinas. The top half sees in daylight, the bottom sees into the water in infrared.

The act of snapping one's fingers is called a fillip.

Tyler, Texas, USA contains the world's largest rose garden: 22 acres with over 38,000 rose bushes and more than 500 varieties of rose.

The 2004 tsunami shifted the location of the geographic South Pole by a few centimeters.