Here are 4 fun facts that you didn’t know you needed to know!
- There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any American state name. There’s a Z in Arizona, and an X in Texas, but no Q in any of them.
- The real name for a hashtag is an octothorpe. The ‘octo’ refers to the eight points in the symbol, but according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the ‘thorpe’ part is a mystery.
- You can hear a blue whale’s heartbeat from over two miles away. Blue whales weigh an average of between 130,000 and 150,000 kg, with their hearts weighing roughly 180 kg.
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. They have a membrane that holds their tongue in place on the roof of their mouth, so it can’t move.
