That you sometimes get called a pig if you eat too much – that’s because farmyard pigs will just keep on eating and eating until their stomachs burst and they die.
Why you burp when you have a fizzy drink? – It’s the carbon dioxide in the fizzy drink that makes this happen. When we eat or drink we swallow air, and the air contains gases like nitrogen and oxygen. So a burp is just gas.
That a flea market doesn’t actually sell fleas – It’s the name of a street market that sells second-hand/used thingslanglang. That an electric eel isn’t really an eel, but a long fish that happens to be electric. The South American electric eel can electrocute and knock out a horse from 3 metres away. An earthworm has 10 hearts. Tarantula spiders can live up to 20 years. The lungfish, which lives in hot, dry deserts, can live without food or water for 4 years.
That our eyes stay the same size our whole lives, but noses and ears just keep on growing.
For more interesting facts check out ‘Everything You Need to Know about the World’, by Simon Eliot.
I had a belching contest with my baby sitter once!!!!:) She won!