Learning HELPS!!
Learning is such an important part of our everyday life. Albert Einstein was of the opinion that an education is not the learning of facts, but rather the training of the mind to think. Therefore, the more we learn the more we grow…Literally. When you learn a new difficult skill or learn brand new information, the brain actually becomes larger in size. Furthermore, research has found that regular cognitive activity reduces your change of developing some types of dementia.
- Did you know the croissant was invented in Austria
- Did you know In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
- Did you know African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
- Did you knowa giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
- Did you know Australia was originally called New Holland
- Did you know’Lonely Planet’ for travelers is based in Melbourne Australia
- Did you know the sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet
- Did you know the Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
- Did you know all the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
- Did you know your foot has 26 bones in it
- Did you know the average human brain contains around 78% water
- Did you know your brain uses between 20 – 25% of the oxygen your breathe
- Did you know 1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
- Did you know if you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3…) it totals 5050
- Did you know sponges hold more cold water than hot
- Did you know lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
- Did you know fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill
- Did you know cats have over 100 vocal chords
- Did you know camel’s milk doesn’t curdle
- Did you know elephants sleep between 4 – 5 hours in 24 period
Hope you all have a FABULOUS Friday!!!
