Smoky Carrot Blog

Did you know that there are, on average, 178 sesame seeds on each McDonalds BigMac bun?

Did you know that women blink twice as often as men?

Did you know that the word “testis” comes from the Latin meaning to bear witness. In ancient Rome, only men could bear witness or testify in a public forum. In order to show importance to their testimony, they would hold their testicles as they spoke, and an oath was declared while holding another’s testicles.

Did you know that the brain of an ostrich is smaller than it’s eye?

Guitar probably comes from the word kithara, which was the principal stringed instrument of the ancient Greeks and later of the Romans. The Kithara was played with a plectrum, it was a larger and stronger form of the lyre.

The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.

An ant can survive two weeks under water.

Did you know that music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented?

Did you know that the harmonica is the world’s best-selling music instrument?