I quite enjoy doing these so I think I’ll keep it up until I run out.

1. The bubbles in your beer can reach 30 atmospheres in pressure. A bubble just 0.1 micrometers in size can have the same pressure as 30 of earths atmospheres. Slightly related, some manufacturers will purposely create glasses with imperfections to assist the formation of bubbles and therefore the ‘head’ at the top of your pint). Try dipping the glass in water then pouring your beer in, your ‘head’ will be small to non-existent.

2. There is no ‘time’ at the North Pole. The North Pole spends 6 months in daylight and 6 months in twilight so effectively it is either day or night. A person may measure time but it has no defined time zone of its own. Lets assume you leave the North Pole for New York or London, at what you’ve decided to call midnight. When you get back from your journey, it will still be ‘midnight’ at the North Pole no matter how long the journey took.

3. Bumblebees should not be able to fly. This is FALSE. The idea is the wings of a bumblebee cannot provide enough lift for flight as they are too small in relation to the body. The theory comes from the principal that aeroplane wings must be of a certain size in relation to the fuselage to provide enough lift. The problem is unlike on a plane, a bumblebee’s wings are moving.

4. It is illegal to mail a whole building in the US. In 1916 a man mailed a 40,000 ton house across Utah to avoid paying the high transport rates. Before thousands of houses started being driven down roads, the act was banned.

5. The opposite of Placebo is Nocebo. It’s not uncommon for patients on a placebo to suffer physical side effects from the drug they believe they are on. This is known as the Nocebo effect (no-cee-bo, Latin for ‘I will Harm’). The source is clearly psychological but no one is sure as to why the mind can affect physical health, or indeed why the mind would allow negative physical effects it could control.