Useless Trivia

Here is a selection of useless trivia – you never know when you may need or want it!!!

• In Iceland, tipping in a restaurant is an insult
• A violin is made using approximately 70 separate pieces of wood
• A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, but in flight is a skein
• A ‘jiffy’ is an actual measurement of time: 1/100th of a second
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
• A mole can dig a tunnel 300ft long in one night
• The state of Florida is bigger than England
• A sneeze travels out of your body at over 100mph
• Slugs have 4 noses
• A man named Charles Osborne had hiccups for 69 years
• Fingernails grown nearly 4 times faster than toenails
• In the English language, the word ’set’ has the most definitions (17)