It Takes About A Week To Make A Single Jelly Bean And 14 More Head Scratching Trivia Tidbits
The world is full of things that are too small. They live in your ears, and your eyes. In your mouth, and on your skin. In every place there is a little world that is not big enough for anything but a tiny thing to live in. But these worlds can be very powerful if the little creatures who live inside them are brave enough.
This is the story of a man named Jules and his quest to defeat the swarm of tiny beasts living inside the human body. This is also a tale about love and loss and friendship and the importance of having people around you to help fight against the swarm that lives inside of us all.
Uhhhh ... no, that's not it. Sorry, wrong article. This is actually a list of fifteen odd facts that don't even have much of a relationship with each other, and actually have nothing to do with a man named Jules or tiny beasts. Enjoy:
The wealth gap is widening, not shrinking.
You are taller in the morning than at night.
It takes a long time to finish making a jelly bean.
You lose half of your taste buds by age 60.
South Africa has a 3 pound, 22 foot earthworm.
There are hairs on the eyes of a honeybee.
Catfish have taste buds all over their bodies.
Gold paved the streets of a town in Colorado during the gold rush.
The Chinese government doesn’t allow “reincarnations” without permission.
The cleanest air in the world can be found in Tasmania.
Inaccurate weather reports are punishable by fines in Moscow.
The human stomach can hold only half the capacity of a 7- Double Big Gulp.
The vast majority of identity thieves are not caught.
Butterflies got their name from their buttery poops.
It took 2 hours to animate just one frame of Sulley in ‘Monsters, Inc.’
