Random and Useless Facts.....
 

K Pop stars train in special K Pop schools. Only a tiny handful of pupils ever make it in the industry
Kpop may look shiny and happy, but in reality its a very hard lifestyle. 'Idols', as their known , are picked at a young age and sent to special schools to train in singing, dancing and acting. If you don't work hard enough to meet the right standards, you can be made to leave! Even though thousands of kids go through this system, only a very small number actually make it into the Kpop bands we all know and love. Would you have what it takes?

Salvador Dali had a pet anteater
Salvador Dali was a pretty strange bloke, it's fair to say. A member of the Surrealism art movement, Dali enjoyed shocking and surprising people. His other antics included painting melted clocks, making a lobster telephone and designing the Chupa Chups lolly wrapper!

Birds are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs
Believe it or not, reptiles are not actually the closest living thing we have to dinosaur. In fact, it's another group entirely - birds! Yes, modern birds all evolved from a common ancestor which was also related to dinosaurs! That explains the eggs, the wings and the big scaly feet! Next time you see a bird, study the way it moves - does it remind you of a dinosaur?

'Google' comes from the word 'googol', which is the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros
The term 'googol' was first used in the 1920s, and is a term used in maths. Founded in 1998, the name was chosen because each 0 represents the possibilities of the search results. Good thing they decided on 'Google' and not 'Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle'.

The most stolen food in the world is cheese
Who would have thought that cheese would be so popular? More popular than chocolate, chips, or anything fancier like truffles, apparently cheese goes missing from shops at an alarming rate! Apparently cheese is getting more expensive and thieves are looking to cash in on this. We can't say we'd be super keen on buying second hand cheese, but clearly someone is!

The largest known diamond in the world was called 'Star of Africa' or the 'Cullinan Diamond'.
'Was' rather than 'is', because after it was discovered it was then cut into lots of smaller diamonds. To be fair, it would be pretty heavy to carry around on a ring! The diamond was discovered in a mine in 1905 and surprisingly took a few years to sell! Maybe no one had any use for a massive diamond? Eventually, however, it was bought, and several of the smaller diamonds in made are now owned by the queen!

Giraffe's horns are called ossicones
They're not hard and sharp like goat's horns, though. These little horns are made out of cartilage, and both male and female giraffes have them, as well as other similar animals like okapis. As a giraffe grows older, these eventually connect to its skull.

The world’s first animated movie was made in Argentina
In 1917, an animation called El Apóstol – The Apostle in English – was directed by Quirino Cristiani and produced by Federico Valle. The story is about Argentina's president at the time, Hipolito Yrigoyen, who wants to make Buenos Aires a better place and has a dream about visiting Greek gods to seek advice.

Vampire bats drink blood
Vampire bats really live up to their name! They don't drink human blood though - they prefer sheep, cows and other mammals. And they don't drink nearly enough to do the animal any harm. They use their fangs, and make a small hole then lap the blood up as it comes out. Urgh.

Lobsters use their feet to taste food
These crustacean legends have taste buds – which are actually hairs – in their feet. It's only once they tested it they'll decide whether it needs a pinch of salt. Sorry.