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20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 2:44pm On Jun 27, 2021
1. The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 2:45pm On Jun 27, 2021
2. The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by nicho450(m): 2:46pm On Jun 27, 2021
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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 2:48pm On Jun 27, 2021
3. It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube one month to solve the cube after he created it.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by Nobody: 2:49pm On Jun 27, 2021
Omo, nah money talk fit light up my day as I dey so grin

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 2:50pm On Jun 27, 2021
4. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 2:53pm On Jun 27, 2021
5. You don’t sneeze in your sleep because your brain shuts down the reflex.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 2:57pm On Jun 27, 2021
6. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 2:59pm On Jun 27, 2021
7. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by BrazilaAirporta: 3:00pm On Jun 27, 2021
prof2007:
6. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
Does lizards have 6 packs

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by BrazilaAirporta: 3:01pm On Jun 27, 2021
prof2007:
7. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.

I guess you've never seen the eagle on the Nigerian

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by Eriokanmi: 3:02pm On Jun 27, 2021
Nice discovery wink
Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:04pm On Jun 27, 2021
8. In Africa it is considered poor taste to use the left hand to eat, shake hands or to pass or receive items.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:06pm On Jun 27, 2021
9. Evidence of human life in Nigeria dates as far back as 9000 BC.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:10pm On Jun 27, 2021
10. The Jos Plateau Indigobird is a species that can be found only in Nigeria.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:12pm On Jun 27, 2021
11. Nigeria’s population is more than all of the east coast of the USA combined.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:15pm On Jun 27, 2021
12. The Niger Delta in Nigeria is the 3rd largest delta in the world.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by Cholls(m): 3:16pm On Jun 27, 2021
Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:19pm On Jun 27, 2021
13. Nigeria has the largest diversity of butterflies in the world.

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:26pm On Jun 27, 2021
14. Nigeria is the 3rd most linguistically diverse country in the world, with over 500 languages. There are more languages spoken in Nigeria than in the entire continent of Europe.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by alfasexy: 3:26pm On Jun 27, 2021
prof2007:
5. You don’t sneeze in your sleep because your brain shuts down the reflex.

It's a lie. I sneeze in my sleep.

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Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by alfasexy: 3:28pm On Jun 27, 2021
prof2007:
11. Lagos’ population is more than all of the eastern USA combined.

Another lie.
Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by Henry22(m): 3:34pm On Jun 27, 2021
15. It's only in Nigeria that we have a man whose name is lie Mohamed and he is a chronic Linus mba grin

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:37pm On Jun 27, 2021
15. The town of Igbo Ora in Oyo State, Nigeria, is known as the "Twin Capital of the World” with the highest rate of twin births in the world. About 1 in every 20 births in the town are twins.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:41pm On Jun 27, 2021
Thanks for pointing out the error. I intended to type "Nigeria", and I have now corrected it.
alfasexy:


Another lie.
Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:47pm On Jun 27, 2021
16. The Dufuna boat, the oldest in Africa and 2nd oldest in the world, was discovered in 1987 in Nigeria. It is believed to be between 8,000 and 8,500 years old.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:50pm On Jun 27, 2021
17. Until 1974, Nigerians could freely travel to the UK without a travel visa.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 3:58pm On Jun 27, 2021
18. The first Nobel Prize for Literature ever won by an African was in 1986 and it was won by a Nigerian, Prof Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka aka Wole Soyinka.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 4:03pm On Jun 27, 2021
19. By 2047 Nigeria will have overtaken the USA to become the world's 3rd most populous country with 387 million, according to UN projections.

Re: 20 Interesting Facts To Light Up Your Day (Nigeria starts from No 9) by prof2007: 4:10pm On Jun 27, 2021
20. Nigeria is the number one Scrabble playing country in the world, and she has won 3 of the last 5 World English Scrabble Players Association Championships.

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