Pogonophobia - the fear of beards?!

Sometimes there are days, were I really can't find my motivation anywhere. If you know what I mean, you also might know how hard is is, especially in those times, to force oneself to learn something for example an upcoming, let's say, english examination.

If you are really completely unmotivated but willing to do something for english, except from grammar, vocab learning and writing, I have something for you.
It is called "unnecessary knowledge", but of course it is not unnecessary: knowledge never is unnecessary! ;)

There are 10 little pieces of wisdom for you:

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.

A horse can look forward with one eye and back with the other.

The youngest parents were 8 and 9 and from China.

The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. 

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards and pagaphobia the fear of Popes.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.

It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

See you at the english cours!:)