10 things we learned in March

10 things we learned in March
Elen Lewis, Marketing Society editor on what she learned in March, from a shiver of sharks to power napping ants and the Casio ring.
  1. YouTube was originally meant to be an online dating site.
  2. Around three million shipwrecks are resting on the ocean's floor.
  3. Wikipedia has 80,000 monthly editors.
  4. If you want to be happy - move to Denmark.
  5. The first product ever invented by Casio was a ring fitted with a cigarette holder so you could keep your hands free while smoking.
  6. A group of sharks is called a shiver.
  7. In 2011, the Chinese military tried to pass off a scene from Top Gun as footage of its own air force.
  8. Queen fire ants sleep for up to 9 hours a day but worker ants take about 250 power naps a day, each only a minute long.
  9. The Virgin Mary is mentioned more often in the Quran than in the Bible
  10. Shoe box-shaped concert halls make audiences feel more emotional.

Read more from Elen Lewis here.

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