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Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours per week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors performing laparoscopic surgery. Yay video games!
Jet lag is worse when you travel east.
The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields.
1 million seconds is 11.574 days.
Iceland voted in the first female president! (shameless Icelandic pride from me)
Blue whale tongues can weigh as much as an elephant.
Your heart is about the size of a rat.
The letter “J” was the last letter added to the English alphabet.
Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ears by 700 times.
The Eiffel Tower gets taller in the summer.
Jumping spiders can jump up to 50x their own length (they are also very cute)
Every continent except Antartica has at least one McDonald's.
People who suffer from boanthropy believe they are a cow and will try to live their life as a cow.
Coke was invented before refrigeration so it's technically supposed to be drank warm.
There are more than 200 Kit Kat flavors in Japan.
Dolphins have more brain wrinkles than humans.
You lose a third of your taste buds while flying.
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from over 2 miles away.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The oldest “your mom” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet.
Woodpeckers tongues wrap around their brain to cushion them from a concussion when they peck against tree trunks.
During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill 50 bathtubs.
A tiger’s roar can be heard as far as three kilometres away.
Cows don’t actually have four stomachs; they have one stomach with four compartments.
Recycling just one tin can saves enough energy to watch television for 3 hours.
There is about a 13.8% more chance you'll die on your birthday versus any other day.
A group of 12 or more cows is called a flink!
The most expensive book ever purchased was sold for $30.8 million!
There’s enough gold inside Earth to coat the planet.
If a female tiger and male lion have a cub together, that cub is something that is called a "liger". If we switch the genders around and the lion is a female and the tiger is male, this cub is called a "tigon"! Ligers are typically the bigger of the two.
I like cucumbers and butter together. It's bomb when it's on bread. This is a fact.
Some octopus species lay 56,000 eggs at a time!
In 1963 in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey, a man knocked down a wall in his home, revealing the lost Derinkuyu underground city in Turkey, which once housed 200,000 people!
Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful.
Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long.
Europeans were scared of eating tomatoes when they were introduced (can't blame them if I'm honest...raw tomato is gross!!!!!)
The reason racoons are often seen washing their food is because they have no salivary glands, so they soften the food with water!
On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women did not go to their paid jobs nor did they do any housework or child-rearing at home. Ninety percent of women took part, including women in rural communities. Fish factories were closed since many of the factory workers were women. This was done to demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society and to protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices.
A liver can regrow to a normal size even after up to 90% of it has been removed.
The moon has moonquakes!
Chewing gum boosts concentration.
Spirited Away was the first anime to be nominated for an Oscar.
Taking a shower can boost your creativity!
Riding a roller coaster could help you pass a kidney stone.
The fastest snake can travel up to 12 miles (19.3 km) per hour.
If a mother sustains organ damage during pregnancy, the fetus can donate its stem cells to help repair the damage!
Switzerland is the biggest consumer of chocolate in the world.
Art used to be an Olympic event.
Reading lowers blood pressure and heart rate
Unwrapped, the bandages of an Ancient Egyptian mummy could stretch for 1.6km.
The scientific name for bats is Chiroptera, which means ‘hand wing’
Our smallest bone is in the middle ear.
In Sweden, blood donors receive a text when their blood is used!
In 1971, Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane after it was struck by lightning. She fell 2 miles (3.2 km) to the ground, still strapped to her seat, and survived. She endured 10 days in the Amazon jungle before being rescued. She was only 17 years old!
The first person to be diagnosed with autism passed away only recently in June 2023 at the age of 89 (rest in peace)
Ice pops were invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy by accident.
Every minute you shed over 30,000 dead skin cells.
Swearing and cursing can actually provide effective relief from pain!
Abraham Lincoln was also a licensed bartender.
The ramen shop 'Ichiraku' in Naruto actually exists. The author of Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto, said it was just a little place he stopped by very often because it was on his path to and from University.
A horse became a Senator in Ancient Rome.
In Ancient Greece, they believed redheads became vampires after death.
Raspberries are a member of the rose family.
Deer practice both monogamy and polygamy.
Mayans built temples over caves or built them to look like caves because they believed that caves were the entrance to the underworld.
Sinkholes are typically caused naturally because of the bedrock and the rapid dissolution of carbonate rocks.
Sharks are older than trees and the rings of Saturn by about 100 million years and 350 million years respectively.
Neptune has the Strongest Winds in the Solar System
One million earths can fit inside the sun.
The only mammal capable of flight is the bat.
A healthy strand of hair can stretch an additional 30% when it's wet.
Working out sharpens your memory.
Kids in Finland do not start school until the age of 7.
There are 150 Billion red blood cells in one ounce of blood.
The Andes are the longest mountain range in the world.
Ketchup Was Sold in the 1830s as Medicine and it wasn't popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century.
The ocean is home to nearly 95% of all life.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Dogs' sense of smell is at least 40x better than ours.
House cats share 95.6% of their genetic makeup with tigers.
It takes 700 gallons of water to make a cotton shirt.
Fredric Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, is buried in one.
There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Penguins can jump as high as 9 feet!
There was a roughly 1 in 400 trillion chance you were born.
"I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
Your eyes blink around 20 times a minute.
A jar of Nutella sells every 2.5 seconds.
The oceans contain almost 200,000 different viruses.
The popular game “Snakes and Ladders” originated in India.
The Hollywood sign in Los Angeles once said "Hollywoodland," but was changed in 1949.
There are more twins now than ever before.
Just like human babies suck their thumbs, baby elephants sometimes suck on their trunks.
France is the world's most visited country.
More than 90% of shark attacks are on males.
Earwax is technically a form of sweat.
A jar of Nutella sells every 2.5 seconds.
Princess Diana's wedding dress, in 1981, was decorated with over 10,000 pearls.
The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
If the human brain were a computer, it could perform 38 thousand-trillion operations per second. The world’s most powerful supercomputer, BlueGene, can manage only .002% of that.
When your mother was born, she was already carrying the egg that would become you.
Human fingers are so sensitive that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could feel the difference between a house and a car.
Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
An average yawn lasts six seconds.
The average hummingbird's heart rate is more than 1,200 beats per minute.
Sudan has more pyramids in the world than any Other country.
There is a tree called the Idiot Fruit, it grows in Australia's Daintree rainforest
China has only one timezone.
Philosophers used to believe that thunder was the sound of clouds colliding.
The most common mineral found in the earth is quartz.
Hippos have pink urine.
Over 30% of Greek words are also used in the English language, most of them being technical and scientific terms.
A full NASA space suit costs $12,000,000.
Over 6,000 computer viruses are released each month.
In English, the names of all the continents end with the same letter with which they start.
Mary Kenneth Keller was the first woman from the U.S. to earn a PHD in Computer Science
There are waterfalls under the ocean’s surface.
Electric eels can produce up to a 600-volt shock.
Bacteria have been around for at least 3.5 billion years, making them the oldest known life-form on the planet.
Your heart can sync to the rhythm when you listen to music.
The average head contains over 100,000 hair follicles.
It snows on Mars and Venus, even though the snow on Venus is actually flakes of metal.
80% of emails sent daily are spam mail.
A hippo’s lips are nearly two feet wide.
1% of the corn grown in the USA is sweet corn (the corn you eat as corn). The other 99% is field corn (or dent corn), which is fairly inedible raw and needs to be processed before human consumption. This field corn is also what they use for non-edible corn products, like ethanol, paint, cosmetics, etc.
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.
The word 'LASER' stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Emma Morano of Italy was the last (documented and verified) person to die that was born in the 1800s. 29th November 1899 - 15th April 2017.
German chocolate cake was invented by an English-American baker named Samuel German and has nothing to do with the country of Germany aside from the name.
Honeybees can be trained to sniff out land mines in war zones.
If you type the word "askew" into the Google search box, the entire page will tilt slightly.
Copper door knobs are self-disinfecting.
Madagascar has a larger population than Australia.
When a rooster crows it partially pinches shut its ear canals so it won't deafen itself.
Chainsaws were originally made for assisting in difficult childbirth (breech, etc).
There are more fake, plastic flamingos for sale, than there are living flamingos on the planet.
Rubbing a dog's ears releases endorphins that induce a feeling of calm and mellowness. It can even be used to reduce pain!
In toddlers, their adult teeth are right underneath their eyes.
Joe Biden was born closer to Abraham Lincoln's presidency than his own.
A bolt of lightning can be up to five times hotter than the sun.
Anteaters have no teeth.
"Digging a hole to China" is possible if you start in Argentina.
The world’s heaviest carrot weighed 10.7kg.
Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts.
Half of all bank robberies in the U.S. are done on a Friday.
Cat urine glows under a black light.
The first novel in the world, "The tale of Genji", ended mid-sentence.
Your heart beats about 115,000 times every day.
At any point in time, 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
Mars has blue sunsets.
At birth, baby pandas are smaller than mice.
You could go to jail for collecting eagle feathers in the U.S.
Most people fall asleep in seven minutes.
1 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every day.
During the first 5 months of Pokémon Go, gaming-related accidents increased by 26.5%.
Puffins don’t make nests, they dig holes.
May 22nd is the least common birth date.
Napoléon Bonaparte’s penis was stolen. The genitalia was removed from his body by his doctor during autopsy.
Jackie Chan voiced the Beast in the Chinese dub of The Beauty And The Beast.
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