NASA was sued for trespassing on mars

Martin and Gary Kemp (from Spandea Ballet) Gary was born with only one kidney, he developed a condition which caused his kidney to fail His younger brother Martin agreed to be a donor and it turned out on the scan that Martin had been born with three kidneys.

The most amazing fact I heard of this week is that Saturn's moon Titan has riverine valleys like Earth, except they are formed by flowing liquid methane. Of course, it also rains methane, but the drops are twice as large as rain on earth and fall at a fifth of the speed. It also has volcanoes that spew a "magma" that is water and ammonia, and at -100C has the same viscosity as molten rock.

The greater honey guide is a bird that drops its eggs into other birds nests. When born, the chick has two teeth at the end of its beak. It then uses that beak to destroy the other eggs/kill the other birds in the nest. So the momma bird returns to a war zone nest and basically has to raise the chick that slaughtered its babies. It loses the teeth like two days after being born. Birds are savage.

It is possible for a professional mimic to forget his voice.

Yoda and Miss Piggy were both voiced by the same person.

Each cell has about 2 meters of DNA and you have about 75-100 trillion cells in your body. If you took all the DNA in your body, uncoiled it, and lined it up, it would reach the sun and back ~300 times.

Penguins do have knees

Australia exports sand and camels to the Middle East.

There used to be a flying reptile that was as tall as a giraffe.

In the early 1900's a wave a molasses rushed through the streets of Boston at 35mph killing 21 people. For decades later, locals said on hot summer days they could still smell molasses in the air

If you are 25 years-old, apx 1/3 of all the humans that were alive at your birth, have died.

There is more fresh water contained in Loch Ness than in all rivers and lakes in England and Wales combined.

About 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year

More people have been on the moon than people have won takeshi’s castle

A day on Mercury is longer than a year on Mercury. The time it takes to see a full cycle of "sunrises" is 176 Earth days. The time it takes to orbit the sun is about half that.

The measles virus actually causes immunity amnesia, meaning your immune system has to “relearn” how to fight off viruses and bacteria you were previously immune to. Measles wipes out 11-73% of the antibodies your body uses to protect against viruses and bacteria. This can last for up to 2-3 years. One of the most amazing facts that highlights the importance of the measles vaccine

When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.

The Stegosaurus was as old to the Tyrannosaurus as the T-Rex is to us. Dinosaurs lived for a long time...

Trees have such intricate root systems that a tree low on one particular type of nutrient will acquire some from his neighbors and make up for it later. This is especially prevalent during the winter months when some trees don't have leaves and so need extra help from their evergreen friends.