Wednesday 29th December (3 days to go)
Some stick insects can grow up to 13 inches (33cm) long.
Thursday 30th December (2 days to go)
Sepp Blatter is up for re election next year as chief corruptor of football (ie FIFA president). Lets hope he pays £15 million for his elecction campaign and only gets one vote maybe losing to someone from Qatar
Friday 31st December…
You need to ingest about 4.5 pounds (just over 2kg) of green potatoes before you will feel the effects of the toxins in the potato.
Incidently I think I established today that you really do learn something new every day!
Along with the other things I learnt this year I did learn that robins see magnetic fields using their right eye, so a robin blind in the right eye is not so hot on its navigation skills. Cannot remember which day I learnt that odd fact though…