Big ones, small ones, some as big as Bitcoin #FridayFunFacts

Big ones, small ones, some as big as Bitcoin #FridayFunFacts

Good morning fun factors! Today's the day hundreds of sticky fingered kids will pop open a window for some chocolate that will tell them it's 24 sleeps till Christmas. Not during WWII however, no no. Advent calendars, developed in Germany in 1852, ceased production during the war to save paper

Forward thinking Bhutan measures Gross National Happiness, rather than just GDP, but what can we make of Srilanka, who has a ministry of coconut development?

So we knew that dolphins are the only non-human animals that have sex for fun, but we didn't now that they also like to get high. Some dolphins were caught on camera nibbling a puffer fish and passing around to their friends for a bit of a nibble too. Puffer fish release a nerve toxin when stressed but dolphins have figured out how to release just enough to put them in a trance-like state. That covers sex and drugs, now we just need to see fin-flappers flailing a fender stat to know they've beaten us for sure.

With Bitcoin on everybody's lips, we thought we'd get in on the action. Behold this cool infograpgic of Bitcoin fun facts courtesy of Mel B, Henry Harris and FeatreFlash

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Why you can never have more than 150 facebook friends

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How a sailfish influenced the design of the Mclaren P1 ‘Hyper Car’

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