Human's Facts

1. The Albatross has a wing span of 3 meteres.
2. Hairs in the nose help clean the air we breath in as well as warm it.
3. The patron saint of wine, Saint Vincent, never touched a drop of alcohol all his life.
4. The children's book, the 'Book of Courtesy' was published by Williams Caxton in 1477. It taught how to behave in front of elders.
5. Lifting finger prints for identifying criminals has been practice in China since 700 AD.
6. Squirrels can detect the smell of nuts covered by 50cm of snow.
7. If we could jump as a grasshopper in proportion to our size, we would be able to leap from the pavement on the roof of an eight storeyed building.
8. The game of dice began with cube-shaped knuckle bones brought from the far eash by Romans.