₦airaland Forum

1. The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

2. The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters.

H

3. It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube one month to solve the cube after he created it.

Omo, nah money talk fit light up my day as I dey so

4. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

5. You don’t sneeze in your sleep because your brain shuts down the reflex.

6. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

7. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.

prof2007:
6. Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.

Does lizards have 6 packs

prof2007:
7. The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward.

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

Nice discovery

8. In Africa it is considered poor taste to use the left hand to eat, shake hands or to pass or receive items.

9. Evidence of human life in Nigeria dates as far back as 9000 BC.

10. The Jos Plateau Indigobird is a species that can be found only in Nigeria.

11. Nigeria’s population is more than all of the east coast of the USA combined.

12. The Niger Delta in Nigeria is the 3rd largest delta in the world.

My brother did you say light up
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13. Nigeria has the largest diversity of butterflies in the world.

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.

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.

prof2007:
11. Lagos’ population is more than all of the eastern USA combined.

Another lie.

15. It's only in Nigeria that we have a man whose name is lie Mohamed and he is a chronic Linus mba

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.

Thanks for pointing out the error. I intended to type "Nigeria", and I have now corrected it.

alfasexy:
Another lie.

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.

17. Until 1974, Nigerians could freely travel to the UK without a travel visa.

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.

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.

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.