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26 interesting facts you may not have known

these might make you question the world

By Nathan Johnson

Published 7 years ago in Wow

these might make you question the world

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1
A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry isn’t.

2
Trees keep our cities cool.

3
Mount Everest grows roughly 4 millimeters every year.

4
Giraffes survive on very little sleep. Anywhere from 10 minutes to 2 hours is enough for them.

5
Low-frequency sound waves emitted by whales can travel more than 10,000 miles in the water.

6
Nepal is the only country with a flag that isn’t rectangular or square shaped.

7
The iconic Eiffel Tower grows 15 cm taller during the summer.

8
The eyes of an ostrich are bigger than its brain.

9
Frowning burns more calories than smiling.

10
You’ve heard the expression, “sweating like a pig” but it turns out that pigs don’t even sweat!

11
One dialect of a world language dies every 14 days.

12
Some cats are allergic to humans.

13
Most diamonds in the world are at least 3 billion years old.

14
The chances that the glass of water you’re drinking contains a molecule of water that once passed through a dinosaur is about 100%.

15
A category 3 hurricane releases more energy in 10 minutes that all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

16
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, 2 rats could have over a million descendants.

17
If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.

18
Lightning strikes the earth 100 times every second.

19
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

20
The moon is moving away from the earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth about 35 feet from the planet’s surface.

21
Turritopsis dohrnii is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.

22
It takes a photon, on average, 200,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, then just a little over 8 minutes from the sun’s surface to your eyeball.

23
Some turtles can breathe out of their butts.

24
Goats have rectangular pupils.

25
There may be no sound in space, but it does have a distinct smell: a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue.

26
Reading in poor lighting or using a computer in the dark does not have any negative effects on your vision.

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