science fact

• Rabbits and parrots can see behind themselves without even moving their heads!

• Butterflies taste food by standing on top of it! Their taste receptors are in their feet unlike humans who have most on their tongue.

• Most of the dust in your home is actually dead skin! Yuck!

• Although the Stegosaurus dinosaur was over 9 metres long, its brain was only the size of a walnut.

• Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pulling down on them.

• Because of the unusual shape of their legs, kangaroos and emus struggle to walk backwards.

• A hippopotamus may seem huge but it can still run faster than a man.

• Even if an analog clock is broken, at least it shows the correct time twice a day.

• Sneezing with your eyes open is impossible.

• The trickiest tongue twister in the English language is apparently "Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick". Give it a try and see for yourself.