Did You Know?

• Bumble bees flap their wings 160 times per second.
• There are enough veins in the human circulatory system to circle the Earth 2.5 times. 
• In the average life time, people walk the equivalent of five times around the earth. 
• In 1778, fashionable women in Paris would wear lightning rods attached to their hat.
• Butterflies have a sense of taste 200 times stronger than a human's.
• More than 88% of the worlds population lives in the northern hemisphere.
• A group of turkeys is called a "rafter".
• In July, 1830, King Louis the XIX of France held the throne for twenty minutes before resigning.
• Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of reading material.
• At least 30,000 games of scrabble are started each hour.