A Ray in the Life

1. A single sneeze travels over 160 kilometres per hour and shoots 100,000 germs into the air.
2. It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose. Go ahead, try it!
3. Sperm whales are the loudest animal on Earth at 230 decibels. (By comparison, an airplane is 150 decibels at takeoff.)
4. A dog’s sense of smell is so good that it can detect a teaspoon of sugar in a million gallons of water or two Olympic-sized pools.
5. Sea otters hold hands while they sleep to prevent themselves from drifting apart. (Hubby and I do that now ever since we moved up to an enormous King Bed. It’s so big I have to text him to stop snoring.) 
6. Tomatoes are native to the Americas, so tomato sauce did not exist in Italy until at least the 16th century.
7. The “Bloody Mary” cocktail may be named after England’s Queen Mary, who had hundreds of people burned at the stake.
8. Pez candy was invented to help people quit smoking cigarettes; the original Pez dispensers were shaped similarly to a cigarette lighter.
9. The world’s biggest waterfall is underwater. You can’t visit the world’s biggest waterfall, because it’s actually deep underwater in the ocean, between Iceland and Greenland. The flow of the Denmark Strait cataract is 2,000 times more powerful than Niagara Falls.
10. The YKK on your zipper? It stands for Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki gaisha, “Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation” which roughly translates to Yoshida Company Limited. It’s estimated that this company makes half the zippers in the world.

Now, go along and impress your friends at your next party.