Did you know facts #5 | Amazing facts | Interesting facts | random facts
Channel: Random Deets
Date: 2023-03-27

1. Did you know your liver's size fluctuates significantly throughout the day?
While studying mice, a team of Swiss researchers found that the mice’s liver cells swelled and contracted up to 40% while doing their daily activities. Though research being conducted whether that happens to that extent in humans, one study from 1986 found a person’s liver swells about 20 percent between day and night—presumably related to the fact that the liver is not working as hard when a person is sleeping.


2. Did you know there are actually two Air Force Ones?
When its only job is to transport one of the world’s most influential leaders all over the globe, it’s important that it is maintained in tip-top shape. So when Air Force One's SAM 28000 Boeing 747-200B plane is getting fixed, there's an identical plane standing by!

3. Did you know Liechtenstein has just one jail?
Wedged between Switzerland and Austria, the country of Liechtenstein only has 10-20 people in total at its single prison! Any criminal requiring a sentence of more than two years is sent to prisons in Austria or Switzerland.


4. Did you know actor Daniel Radcliffe went through nearly 70 wands and 160 pairs of glasses during the making of the Harry Potter films?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the production team for the seven films also made 40 versions of Salazar Slytherin's locket, 250 paintings for the Marble Staircase, 900 Memory Vials for the cabinet in Dumbledore's Office, and 210,000 coins for the Gringotts bank scene just for last two films alone. Talk about magic!


5. Did you know the filling in Kit Kats is made from damaged Kit Kats?
KitKat bar
The folks at the Kit Kat factory sure know how to recycle! Whenever a Kit Kat bar is somehow made imperfect during production like air bubbles or some other issue, the chocolate bar isn’t thrown out. Instead, they ground up into a fine paste and turned into a filling that's then incorporated back into the production process to create new Kit Kat bars!


6. Did you know it only takes six minutes for alcohol to affect your brain?
Give yourself 6 minutes and you’ll see your favorite alcoholic beverage can go to your head a lot quicker than you think. Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital found that just six minutes after consuming alcohol, changes are already taking place in the brain!

7. Did you know a mailman made a castle in France?
Le Palais Idéal is an 85-foot-long, 33-foot-high castle located south of Lyon made from rocks that a 19th-century French postman picked up during his mail route over the course of 34 years. Even though the mailman had no formal architecture training, he built the castle himself including the pillars, grottoes, and flying buttresses. Today, the massive structure still stands and visitors still go see it today.


8. Did you know professional cheesemakers are studying if music can change the taste of cheese?
Sweet dreams are made of cheese! Swiss cheesemaker, Beat Wampfler, plays songs from bands like Led Zeppelin and A Tribe Called Quest during his cheese-producing process and, with the help of students from the University of the Arts in Bern, he's studying to see if and how music can change the flavor of his Emmental cheese.


9. Did you know Loch Ness contains more freshwater than all of England's lakes combined?
Located in Scotland, Loch Ness holds more freshwater than any other British lake at a volume of 7,452 cubic meters! If any lake could hold a mythical dinosaur-like monster, it’s this one.