Friday, 7 July 2017

Five Things You Didn't Know - Five on Friday

Happy Friday Folks!

I'm really struggling for inspiration today. Next week is my 29th birthday (on Tuesday to be precise) so I will no doubt have some goodies to show you all the following Friday :)

For this week I thought I'd do a fun Five on Friday with 5 facts you might not know.

1 Worlds Deadliest Animal You'd be forgiven for thinking it would be something like lions, snakes or even sharks, but in fact the animal that kills the most humans worldwide is in fact the mosquito! The World Health Organisation estimates that 725,000 people are killed each year by mosquito-born diseases. A staggering 200 million people are at least temporarily incapacitated by malaria alone, of which 600,000 die.

Of course the instances of death caused by mosquito are very low in the US and UK, if we exclude the rest of the world the animal most likely to kill you is actually the bee! In a typical year bees kill an average of 100 Americans according to the CDC. Luckily, to the vast majority of people, a bee sting is not life-threatening. Experts say that the average adult can safely withstand more than 1,000 bee stings. Of course, fewer stings could prove dangerous to an infant, small child or the elderly. What makes stings deadly is generally not the toxicity of bee venom itself but an allergy developed as a result of prior stings.

2 - Today's Top Killers
I wouldn't worry too much about the Mosquitos and Bees too much (or any other animals for that matter), as you can see from the chart below: I won't speculate too much but I truly believe that the poison we call food these days is responsible for most of the horrors that afflict us in the modern day. GMO, Herbicides, Pesticides and Processed Foods have a lot to answer for! Moving swiftly on....

3 - Ants Ants are pretty incredible. They are found across the entire world, they are as old as the dinosaurs. The largest known ant species was 2.4inches long and the oldest recorded ant lived for 30 years!
You probably know that Ants are in the same family as wasps and bees, but did you know that Ants are capable of holding 100 times their own body weight whilst hanging upside down from a sheet of glass? Puts the worlds strongest man to shame!

4 - Worlds Strongest Animal
Ants are strong, but their strength to weight ratio pales in comparison to a dung beetle The half inch long dung beetles are the strongest living creatures on Earth. The male insects of this small species of insects can lift objects that are 1141 times more heavier than their own body weight. It is just like an average sized human carrying 80 tons.

5 - You are as old as the Universe Whether you believe in the universe being created by a higher power or big bag theorist one thing we can all agree on is the fact that matter cannot be created or destroyed it can only be rearranged. This means that the atoms that make up you and I were present at the creation of the universe and have been a part of a great number of things before and will go on to be a part of a great many other things after our time on this planet passes. It's amazing to think that some of the carbon in your bones could have one been part of a dinosaur, some of the iron in your body might have come to earth in a meteor millions of years. For me it proves further the interconnectedness of all things, the infinite number of relationships between all things alive and dead past present and future.

To keep things light hearted here's a little bonus bit of trivia to make you feel warm and fuzzy: In 1991, Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, married Russi Taylor—the voice of Minnie!

I hope you've enjpoyed this weeks ramblings, Thanks for joining us once again for Five on Friday, we hope you have a wonderful weekend :)
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