Did You Know?

Reading random facts has always been one of the things that I enjoy doing. Not like a hobby but I find it intriguing and quite fascinating to think about most of the things that I come across. It kills time in the most productive way and also keeps your mind and brain involved in a much healthier form of passing time. This is just to jot down a few facts that I recently came across and they seem a bit trivial so we never really know what might and what might not come in handy.

10% of the world population is left-handed.

If you think of the entire world and the population, 10% is a rather small percentage of left-handed people. But it does not stop there. Apparently, men are more likely to be left-handed than women. Various studies have also suggested that the handedness of a person can be determined from the time they spend in the mother’s womb. Some studies also suggest that one’s heritage may also play a role in determining if someone will be left or right-handed. I still need and want to look into the heritage aspect of it though.

Rabbits eat their feces.

After eating them, they will digest it again like normal food. Rabbits have two kinds of droppings, little black round ones and softer black ones known as cecotropes. The cecotrope droppings are the ones that they eat, and they do this so they can re-absorb any undigested nutrients from their food. I really want to know what others think about this.

The Hawaiian alphabet contains only 13 letters.

The Hawaiian alphabet contains a total of five vowels that are both long and short. It also contains a total of eight consonants. Hawaii’s alphabet represents all the basic sounds and phonemes in their language. This is actually really cool, and it will for sure stay with me for long.

A giraffe cleans its ears with its tongue.

This is one of our most surprising did you know facts about these tall creatures. A giraffe’s tongue is over a foot and a half long or 21 inches. They also use their tongues to get around thrones and acquire the leaves they want to eat. Now imagine this. Tongue that goes in their ears also picks their food. How about that?

Koalas sleep 18 hours a day.

Koalas normally sleep for 18–22 hours a day. The reason for this is so that they have enough energy to digest the food that they eat properly. I am actually jealous of Koalas after reading this. I can switch places and do their job just as efficiently.