FACT Of The Day

When two hippo's are about to fight, they point their bums at each other, wag their stubby little tails vigorously, and flick faeces at each other.

FACT Of The Day

Theoretically bananas are herbs.

Bet that's something you didn't know before.

FACT Of The Day

It’s been a few days since I was last able to astonish and amaze you with my FACT Of The Day. University has completely taken over my life, well maybe not completely; I admit a few cheeky nights out have been sneaked into my busy timetable. But you know the saying, all work and no play…

Anyway let’s get on with business, today’s interesting fact will undoubtedly shock you to the core:

Technically zebras are black with white stripes; a shaved zebra would be completely black.

These guys are as dumbfounded as I imagine you all are.

"Whhaaatttttttt?!?!"

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23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their bums.

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Turtles can breathe through their bums.

...I bet their breath stinks!!!

Dry your eyes mate

What is the meaning of life?

Does God really exist?

What is at the end of the universe?

Today’s post is going to attempt to answer one of life’s most unanswered questions…

How do you chop an onion without crying?

After probing the World Wide Web relentlessly, I have compiled a list of the best suggestions I have found. 

I must warn you that none of the below have been tried and tested by myself so you are cautioned to trial them at your peril. 

• Chewing gum whilst chopping
• Lighting scented candles near the chopping board
• Biting on a wooden spoon whilst chopping
• Once it is peeled put it in cold water for a while then chop it, or chop it under running water
• Refrigerating it for half hour  prior to chopping
• Or alternatively place it in the freezer for 15 minutes prior to chopping
• Wear swimming goggles whilst chopping
• Leave the root on whilst chopping
• Put a piece of bread in your mouth whilst chopping
• Put salt beside where you are chopping
• Put a match between your teeth whilst chopping
• After peeling , place the stuff you peel off on your head and continue to chop the rest
• Stick a teaspoon in your mouth whilst chopping
• Leave a filled glass of water in front of the onion when chopping it

My personal favourite suggestion is "after peeling, place the stuff you peel off on your head and continue to chop the rest". Next time I peel an onion I may try this tactic out- I’ll let you know if it works.

If anyone has had any experience with the above recommendations, or has any different ways to enable the world to chop onions tear-free then please do comment below.

If we work together, then hopefully one day, we can solve this epidemic together.

…Alternatively here are my own top tips:

• Buy ready chopped onions
• Get someone else to cut it for you
• Man up and get over it, it only takes two minutes to chop an onion.

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To everyone reading today's FACT Of The Day who is scared of flying hopefully it will make you feel a bit better and put things into perspective.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Who knew! 

And yet we still let those innocent looking creatures stand on our beaches, as bold as brass, luring us in for their death rides!

Watch your ass people!

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Did you know...

If you fold a piece of paper 42 times it would reach the moon.

(And if you fold it about 94 times it would make something the size of the entire visible universe).

Now that is a fact and a half!

I actually learned this fact about a year ago, but every single person I told laughed at me, mocking at how gullible I was to believe such 'rubbish', so I stopped telling people this little snippet of general knowledge...until today! Because today I spent the time researching it (anything to avoid doing Uni work!) and it is in fact verified!

So in short, IN YOUR FACE!

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I’ve not been able to do any full length posts for the last few days as I’m currently spending the majority of my waking hours in the library doing assignments, sorry. Trust me it’s not great at all, it’s a daily struggle not to fall asleep on my keyboard… remind me again why I decided to do this Master’s?! 

Consequently today’s FACT Of The Day is something I’m determined to get down to a tee:

It is possible for people to take cat naps with their eyes open, without being aware of it.

…because noticeably falling asleep at your computer just isn’t cool.

If that proves too testing, you may find me in the library doing something along these lines…

In fact, it could very possibly become part of my daily make-up routine, for those days when you just need to get some sneaky shut-eye.

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The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.

....crazy Scots.

I tend to avoid funerals because I'm not really a mourning person

Did you know that you can turn a person’s ashes into diamonds?

No? Neither did I, and after extensive research I have discovered that this is in fact completely true. An American (typical!) company will turn your loved ones ashes into a diamond that you can wear forever. For me, I fail to see the creepy side and absolutely love this idea. If anyone is taking note, this is exactly what I want to happen to mine!

As I was delving into the prospect of this idea, I also uncovered that you can have a person’s ashes made into a fireworks display. What better a way to celebrate someone’s life! Granted it will be over in a matter of minutes never to be seen again, but what a great few minutes’ right?

Apologies for the sombre mood this post has taken, but this idea intrigued me. And the craziness doesn’t stop there. In this day and age, the passing of a loved one no longer needs to be such a solemn and sober affair. Here are some other weird and wonderful things you can get done with your remains:

• ·        Get loaded into bullets
• ·        Get turned into a pencil (240 pencils to be exact)
• ·        Launched into space
• ·        Turned into coral reef
• ·        Painted into a work of art
• ·        Launched in a helium balloon
• ·        Be the sand in an hourglass
• ·        Be built into a pyramid
• ·        Press them into your favourite record
• ·        Tattoo them into someone’s skin
• ·        Incorporated into a Frisbee

So come on, what would you do? Have any innovative and unique ideas of your own?

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In slight relation to my previous post, here's your FACT Of The Day that, as immature as it may be, undeniably made me chuckle:

The air you take in everyday has 1 litre of fart in it.

You heard it here first!

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Virgin Blogger

So as you can see this is my first intrepid adventure into the blogosphere. I would warn you all not to hold your breath; this might take me a while to get the hang of.

When deciding to create a blog, it’s always difficult to determine the style and tone you’re going to go for. As a PR Masters student should I be going down the academic route and blogging interesting and topical PR articles, or as a 22 year old do I go for a lighter hearted and fun blog, or can I combine the two? Instead of defining the tone of the blog at the outset, I have decided to just go with it and let it instead be a place for me to write my inane musings.

When I decided that tonight would be the night that I started this blog, I text my Mum to get her advice on what might be an interesting topic. Take a look at the reply I got back…

Don’t worry; my Mum isn’t some faecally-obsessed, Gillian McKeith wannabe! That fatuous suggestion actually came from my darling baby brother who managed to intercept my Mums phone and give his own suggestion…whatever floats his boat! (Little did he know that his chosen topic would actually feature on my first blog.)

But it got me thinking that you could literally write about anything you have a keen interest in… I’ll keep you posted on when my brother brings out his blog! Unfortunately for me I have no keen interest in anything, just a mediocre interest in everything.

I am not unequivocally passionate about fashion or food or music or politics- It was only yesterday that I had a momentary lapse in the library (of all places) and thought that Gordon Brown was the Prime Minister still. But like I said, it was only a momentary lapse, I obviously know that the PM is David Cameron, and Nicholas Clegg is the Deputy Prime Minister and the Lord President of the Council in the coalition government between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties (cheers Google!).

And as many of my friends will tell you, even though I do love music and I do love to dance, I wouldn’t know Kanye West if I fell over him, I thought Biffy Clyro was a solo female artist, and to me, the Wombats sound far too similar to the Wombles and so will forever in my eyes be pointy-nosed, furry creatures, wombling free.

With regards to food, I can make a cracking home-made garlic bread and I’m not contesting that I love good grub, but it’s not something that massively excites me.

Ah shucks! I fear I have had a classic case of the rambler, and this post has ended up somewhere entirely different than it began…I told you it may take me a while.

Taking everything into account, you’re probably about as clued up as me as to the way this blog is going to turn out. But how about you, if you were to start a blog, what tone would you go for; erudite and knowledgeable, or flippant and funny, or indeed to tame a brother’s advice and talk about the consistency of poo?

Until next time Chicas,

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Happy Easter

I know it may be a few days late but I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Easter and hope you all had a brilliant weekend.

I'd like to say I had a fab Easter but unfortunately my Easter weekend was spent travelling 2.5 hours back to University for group meetings and library sessions....oh the joys of a Master's!