Ten things you may not have known last week

You may find this  collection of 'facts' useful or otherwise but that's for you to decide. So why not take a few minutes to peruse and as always, feel free to add your tuppence worth. If any-one wants to contribute 10 interesting facts please send them to me at webmaster1456@blueyonder.co.uk.

1. More babies are born on a Tuesday than any other day of the week.

2. The surface area of the earth is 197 million square miles.

3. Only four men in the history of boxing have been knocked out in the first eleven seconds of the first round.  

4. Since 1896 when the modern Olympics were born, only Greece and Australia have participated in every event.

5. Julius Caesar was self-conscious about his receding hairline.

6. The statistical chance of a person being murdered is one in twenty thousand.

7. As much as six percent of the world's population may experience sleep paralysis, the inability to move and speak for several minutes after awakening.

8. The adult human heart weighs about ten ounces.

9. It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.

10. The world's largest coffee pot is located in Davidson, Saskatchewan. It measures 7.3 Meters tall, is made of sheet metal and could hold 150,000 cups of coffee.