Here are some quirky and fascinating general knowledge facts to entertain you for the hazy period where you don't know what day and time it is:

• Snails have between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, though they aren't like human teeth but are found all over their file-like tongue.
• A chicken once lived for 18 months without a head back in the 1940s in the USA, surviving because his jugular vein and most of his brainstem were left mostly intact. A shrimp's heart is in its head, and it's physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
• Octopuses don't have tentacles, their eight limbs are actually considered arms. A horse can produce maximum power of 18,000 watts, which equals around 24 horsepower. Flamingos are born with grey or white feathers and develop pink feathers from eating shrimp and algae, and what looks like their knees bending are actually their ankles.
• When you wake up in the morning, you're about one centimetre taller because at night when you're lying down, the spine stretches and decompresses.
• Wearing a necktie can reduce blood flow to your brain by up to 7.5 per cent, which can make you feel dizzy, nauseous and cause headaches.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times.
• Humans can distinguish approximately 10 million colours thanks to the cone cells in the retina.
• If you've ever felt like you think better in a warm shower, you're probably right because the warm water increases the flow of dopamine and makes us more creative.
• Botanically, bananas are classified as berries, while strawberries aren't because strawberries are actually aggregate fruits that form from multiple ovaries of a single flower.
• There's a fruit called black sapote that tastes like chocolate pudding and sweet custard, native to Central and South America.
• About four per cent of the world's cheese ends up stolen, with retailers considering it a "high-risk" food.
• Google Images was created after Jennifer Lopez wore her infamous dress at the 2000 Grammys because so many people were searching for her outfit that the search engine added an image function.
• The small dollop of toothpaste you see in advertisements is called a nurdle.
• A cloud typically weighs around a million tonnes, with a volume of around one cubic kilometre.
• Sound can be minus decibels, with the quietest place on Earth being Microsoft's anechoic chamber in Redmond, Washington, at -20.6 decibels.
• Venus takes longer to rotate once on its axis (about 243 Earth days) than it does to orbit the Sun (around 225 Earth days).