FACTS

Another Monday is here so here are more facts.

It is impossible to drown and not die, technically the term “drowning” refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.

A square mile in the Amazon jungle can contain up to 3,000 different species of trees

In his final year Emperor Napoleon was exiled to the tiny island of St Helena in Atlantic. The wallpaper in his room was dyed with Scheele’s Green a colouring pigment that contained copper arsenite. When the wallpaper became damp the mould converted the copper arsenite to a poisonous vapour form of arsenic. So his death was down to his wallpaper.

The number “007” originated in the 16^th century, Bond author Ian Fleming base his character on Dr John Dee, the first British secrete agent, who lived from 1527 to 1608 and was an adviser to Queen Elizabeth 1. Dee used the 007 code for his letters to the Queen. The two zeros meant “ for your eyes only”.

Mosquitoes prefer to bite children over adults and blondes over brunettes.