Did You Know?

• The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living at the white house.
• Valentine's Day Trivia. An estimated one billion Valentine cards are sent each year. 85% of all Valentine cards are sent by women.Cupid, often associated with Valentine’s Day, is the son of Venus, Roman goddess of love. The red rose, representing love, remains the most popular flower purchased by men in the U.S.
• Los Angeles' full name is 'El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula' and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.
• The "pound" key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph. The "dot" over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
• Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
• There is a city called Rome on every continent.
• The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man.
• A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
• The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
• Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
• You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.