Wiekes Knows: 10 interesting facts that will make your week

Yay, it's time again to end the week with some interesting facts. And this week, it's the ten most interesting facts you've heard all week - I bet. Some grim, some sweet, and chances are you didn't know almost all of them. Can you nicely impress those around you with fun facts again.

1. The Guinness Book of Records was invented by Guinness beer

They thought a book full of facts would fix the pointless discussions in a bar.

2. Mammoths still lived on earth when the pyramids were built

3. If you get a kidney transplant, you usually have three kidneys

They often just leave the two non-working kidneys in place and place the third, new kidney in your pelvis.

4. Honey never goes out of date

Archaeologists have found jars of honey from ancient Egypt and they are still edible after thousands of years.

5. NASA funded a study in the 1950s in which they gave dolphins LSD to communicate with them

Even more bizarre: they wanted to teach dolphins English. So they were not trying to understand dolphin communication, but wanted the animals to learn their language.

6. A year is shorter than a day on Venus

This is because Venus rotates around its axis so slowly that it goes once around the sun faster than around its axis.

7. People on fire do not burn, but melt

You only die from the fire when all your fat has melted (or from suffocation due to lack of oxygen), so basically you melt when you are on fire. Grim.

8. Ketchup was initially used as medicine

And was then still made from mushrooms.

9. Twins with largest age difference are 87 days

10. Bees communicate with each other by dancing

How sweet?