If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty.

The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.

On average a hiccup lasts 5 minutes.

If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.

An exocannibal eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends.

The name Wendy was first used in JM Barrie’s Peter Pan.

The 17th-century French Cardinal Mazarin never traveled without his personal chocolate-maker.

Alexander Graham Bell never phoned his wife or mother because they were deaf.

The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.

Beer was the first trademarked product – British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.

In 1963 the French launched a cat called Feliette into space.

Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.

The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to ride in a railroad train.

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president, the eighth vice president and lived to see the election of eight different presidents from eight different states.

The first president to be photographed while in office was President James K. Polk, in 1849.

The first telephone was installed in the White House when Rutherford Birchard Hayes was president.

Elizabeth Wallace, Harry Truman’s wife, was the longest living First Lady.