Factday Sundays

remember Poetry Tuesdays?
here goes Factday Sundays (sort of a loose spin-off of my FAILED Summer of Knowledge)

The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.

You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day. (how many calories is THAT?!)

Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients. (i haven't blogged about maggots in AGES. this was on an episode of House)

Ants don’t sleep.

According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.

87% of statistics are made up.