It's Bank Holiday Monday – So let's get happy! On day eleven of our fifteenth anniversary countdown, Features Editor Laura Smith provides us with fifteen fun facts that make us happy!
- Otters hold hands whilst they fall asleep so they don’t float apart.
- The voices of Mickie and Minnie Mouse are married in real life.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- A group of Flamingos is called a Flamboyance.
- Cows have BFF’s and get stressed when they are away from them.
- Worms communicate with one another by snuggling.
- Window washers at children’s hospitals dress up as superheroes to surprise the kids.
- Blind people smile despite never having seen other people do it. It is a natural human impulse.
- We’re all made of star dust: The nitrogen, carbon, calcium and iron in our bodies was made in the inside of collapsing stars.
- Sometimes sloths are so stupid they mistake their own arm for a branch and fall out of the tree.
- A group of porcupines is called a Prickle.
- Spinner dolphins sleep in pairs: One with it’s left eye and left side of the brain active and the other with the right.
- Cows produce the most milk when listening to Everybody Hurts by REM.
- Before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr had a pillow fight in his motel room.
- Cuddling releases Oxytocin which speeds healing and recovery from physical wounds.
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