Welcome to #factfriday ladies and gentlemen. For those of you who don’t know what goes on, the RE-UP team tell you the most interesting and sometimes (Marco, we’re looking at you) weird facts that they’ve learnt this week. Welcome to Heads-UP!
- Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs but only 2 will survive – Fabienne
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear – Marco
- The most expensive advert ever made was Baz Luhrmann’s mini feature-film for Chanel N°5, featuring Nicole Kidman in 2004. The spectacular production cost a mega £18 million and Nicole was paid £2 million alone… – Krish
- There is a city called Rome on every continent. – Fannie
- ‘Portobello’ mushrooms are just overgrown/mature common button (cremini) mushrooms. The term was invented as a brilliant marketing scheme in the 1980’s to sell the previously unpopular product. – Andrea
- I learnt that wristwatches were originally created as jewellery pieces and almost exclusively worn by women. It took a while for men to realise their practically and switch out their pocketwatches for one. – Bill
- In VR, depth is a big issue. Oculus is currently working on a focal surface whose “displays mimic the way our eyes naturally focus at objects of varying depth” – Laurent