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Cool and Weird Facts

1. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas. By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons at Primary school.
2. On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call. Rats and horses can't vomit. Most lipstick contains fish scales. Cats urine glows under a black light.
3. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. If you keep your eyes open by force, they will pop out. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
4. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
5. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
6. 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks. In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders. Barbie's full name is Barbara Milicent Roberts. It is impossible to lick your elbow. A crocodile can't stick its tongue out. A shrimp's heart is in their head.
7. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you're heart stops for a mili-second. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

Tongue Facts

Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue. There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.P85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.

Mouth Facts

In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch. People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose. While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth. It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.

PHOTON DETECTORS

Your eyes are very sensitive, able to detect just a few photons of light. If you take a look on a very clear night at the constellation of Andromeda, a little fuzzy patch of light is just visible with the naked eye. If you can make out that tiny blob, you are seeing as far as is humanly possible without technology. 

Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way. But "near" is a relative term in intergalactic space – the Andromeda galaxy is 2.5m light years away. When the photons of light that hit your eye began their journey, there were no human beings. We were yet to evolve. You are seeing an almost inconceivable distance and looking back in time through 2.5m years.

Musee Rodin in Paris, France

The Musee Rodin is the only park almost completely dedicated to Rodin's works – of which there are many. Located just outside Rodin's Paris home, together the outdoor park and the indoor museum host over 6,000 sculptures. Of course the museum has the most prominent Rodin pieces like The Thinker, The Kiss and The Gates of Hell.

Lapidea International Sculpture Symposium in Mayen, Germany

The Lapidea International Sculpture Park is constantly changing each year because of the event called ‘The Symposium’. Located just outside the region’s basalt-lava quarries, each year budding young artists gather to show their prowess in the art of the stone. After the event is over and the artists have left, all that remains is the fruit of their labour.

The Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden in Los Angeles, California, US

Located just outside the J Paul Getty Museum is the stunning Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden. It is certainly not the largest outdoor sculpture park with only 28 works, but that does not make it any less special.

This park earned such a prestigious name for itself because all 28 works on view were donated from the private collection of film producer Ray Stark and his wife Fran. The oldest statue dates back to 1911 and the newest is from the 1980s. Some of the artists showcased in the collection include huge names on the sculpting scene like Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Saul Baizerman, Elisabeth Frink, Ellsworth Kelly and Roy Lichtenstein.

For guests who want a bird's eye view over the whole affair, be sure to make a visit up to the museum terrace, which looks down over the whole sculpture garden.

Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland, England

Kielder Water and Forest Park is more so a park with some sculptures hidden in it. With only 22 pieces along the 47-kilometre forest trail, it will definitely take more than a day to see it all. However, in between hiking to the next beautiful piece of art you’ll see some of the most beautiful forest along the Scottish-English border.

DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, US

The internationally renowned DeCordova Sculpture Park sprawls through the forests, fields and carefully-tended gardens of the DeCordova Museum grounds. The sculptures change from time to time as they rotate to other venues, but some of the permanent pieces are from renowned artists such as Sol Lweitt, Anthony Gormley, Aexander Liberman and Roy Lichtenstein.

Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, Washington, US

The Olympic Sculpture Park opened in 2007 as a collaborative effort between the Seattle Art Museum and the Trust for Public Land. This sculpture park was an effort to preserve the very last piece of undeveloped land on Seattle's waterfront. Not only was a wonderful piece of nature preserved in an otherwise constantly developing city, but the expanse is now the prize of the community.

See the Typewriter Eraser by Claes Oldenburg or Scale X by Coosje van Bruggen, all framed by the backdrop of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains. It is a wonderful mingling between art and nature, all in the centre of an urban hub.