14 Of The Most Interesting Facts Ever
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
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.
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.
Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.
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.
Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.
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.
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.
The Spanish national anthem has no words.
The state sport of Maryland is jousting.
Dead people can get goose bumps.
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