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1.
Honey does not
spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.
2.
Dead people can
get goose bumps.
3.
A small
percentage of the static you see on "dead" TV stations is left over
radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's
creation.
4. The
state sport of Maryland is jousting.
5. When we
breathe through our nose, we always inhale more air from one nostril than with
the other one — and this changes every 15 minutes.
6. If you
were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human
on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
7. The woolly
mammoth was still around when the pyramids were being built.
8. There are
more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known
universe.
9. If you
somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our
lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of
gold up to your knees.
10. It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely
drain the average human of blood.
11. Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians,
Chinese, and Mayans.
12. To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the
female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that
helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.
13.
It can take a photon 40,000 years to
travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel
the rest of the way to earth.
14. Water
bears, or Tardigrades, are typically 0.5 mm in length and can survive virtually
anything. Even the vacuum of space.
15. Basically
anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten
material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before
being melted.
16.
The critically
endangered Kakapo bird has a strong, pleasant, musty odor which allows
predators to easily locate it. Hence, it is critically endangered.
17. In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew for
the first time. 66 years later, man landed on the Moon in 1969.
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