Elen Lewis, Marketing Society editor on what she learned in March, from a shiver of sharks to power napping ants and the Casio ring.
- YouTube was originally meant to be an online dating site.
- Around three million shipwrecks are resting on the ocean's floor.
- Wikipedia has 80,000 monthly editors.
- If you want to be happy - move to Denmark.
- The first product ever invented by Casio was a ring fitted with a cigarette holder so you could keep your hands free while smoking.
- A group of sharks is called a shiver.
- In 2011, the Chinese military tried to pass off a scene from Top Gun as footage of its own air force.
- 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.
- The Virgin Mary is mentioned more often in the Quran than in the Bible
- Shoe box-shaped concert halls make audiences feel more emotional.
Read more from Elen Lewis here.
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