Scott’s TIL

#TIL 46/365: The tongue is the only muscle in your body attached at one end only.

#TIL 45/365: The proper name for brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

#TIL 44/365: Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean is the farthest place from land on Earth.

#TIL 43/365: Queen Elizabeth II never had a passport, as passports are issued in her name.

#TIL 42/365: Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire by about 200 years.

#TIL 41/365: Stonehenge is older than the pyramids.

#TIL 40/365: There was a turtle that Charles Darwin had taken from the Galapagos Islands. It was adopted by Charles Darwin when she was five and lived to 176 years of age.

#TIL 39/365: Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

#TIL 38/365: Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly.

#TIL 37/365: Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

#TIL 36/365: Blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant.

#TIL 35/365: Russia has 11 time zones.

#TIL 34/365: The hardest bone in the human body is the femur.

#TIL 33/365: Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were both born in 1929.

#TIL 32/365: It’s estimated winds on Neptune can reach up to 1,200mph.

#TIL 31/365: Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the flushing toilet.

#TIL 30/365: Only about a quarter of the Sahara is sandy.

#TIL 29/365: In 1672, the Dutch killed and partially ate their prime minister Johan de Wit.

#TIL 28/365: Tigers also have striped skin as well as their fur.

#TIL 27/365: Contrary to popular belief, Armadillos are not bulletproof. Glyptodont are thought to have been though.

#TIL 26/365: Tristan da Cunha islands in the Southern Atlantic Ocean is the most remote place on the planet.

#TIL 25/365: Owls don’t have eyeballs, but eye rods/tubes instead.

#TIL 24/365: Marie Curie was the first person ever to win two Nobel prizes. Physics first, then chemistry.

#TIL 23/365: A hashtag has a proper name, which is octothorpe.

#TIL 22/365: Q is the the only letter than doesn’t appear in a US state name.

#TIL 21/365: The Ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health which is where we 'raise a toast' came from.

#TIL 20/365: All mammals get goosebumps.

#TIL 19/365: Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints.

#TIL 18/365: Lego bricks can withstand compression better than concrete

#TIL 17/365: The plural of Moose is Moose.