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Humans shed 18 kg of skin in their lifetime.
At this rate, a person completely replaces their outer skin every month.
The "Like" button on Facebook was supposed to be the "Awesome" button.
However, the developers decided “Like” would be a more universal term.
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The stories you read in Mental Floss can originate in a variety of ways; sometimes they come about during the course of an official editorial meeting—and sometimes they occur to you during a road trip. It took more than 30 years for it to occur to me that it seemed strange that we had two hit songs titled “Creep” in 1992—then a third a year later. Fortunately, Kenneth Partridge was just as intrigued by this coincidence, and took the time to dig into the musical face-off.
I roped Ellen Gutoskey into writing this twofer about one of Colonial America’s enduring mysteries: What happened to the English colony of Roanoke, which vanished in 1590? She covered the ill-fated attenpt to build a community on the island in modern-day North Carolina, from Sir Walter Raleigh’s enthusiastic survey of “Virginia” in 1584 to the settlers’ unexplained disappearance six years later. Ellen also dug into the story of the “Dare Stones,” an elaborate hoax purporting to solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke, involving messages supposedly carved on rocks by the parents of Virginia Dare, the first child born in Roanoke. Even 400-plus years later, the plot still thickens.
Human fingers are really sensitive.
The nerve endings on fingers are so sensitive that if your fingers were the size of Earth, you could still feel the difference between a house and a car.
Humans are genetically related to bananas.
We share 50% of our genes with bananas, which is about 1% of our DNA.
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Our sense of smell and taste decrease by 20%-50% during flights.
Because of the lack of humidity and pressure in high altitudes, our sense of taste and smell weakens.
There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water you could fill with all the oceans of the Earth.
Since the first subatomic particles were identified by J. J. Thomson in 1897, scientists have studied the properties of matter and atoms. It was discovered that there are 1082 atoms in the universe, which is a 10 followed by 82 zeroes.
Bubble wrap was originally designed to be used as wallpaper.
Bubble wrap was born in 1957, when engineer Al Fielding and Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes tried creating a textured wallpaper. However, their product was rejected. They also tried marketing it as a greenhouse insulator, but the material still fell short. However, when IBM released a new computer, Fielding and Chavannes pitched their concept as a protective covering for computer shipments. From then on, bubble wrap was adopted as the go-to protective wrap. Third time’s the charm, I guess.
Do you know which famous author died from accidentally swallowing a toothpick? Or the one whose death remains a mystery to this day? Lorna Wallace breaks down the many unusual ways our favorite authors shuffled off this mortal coil in this list, which is full of facts I know I’ll be dropping at parties for years to come.
The world’s largest onion was grown in 2023.
For a few months in 2023, Jupiter held the title for having the most moons in our solar system.
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A huge geyser was spotted on Enceladus in 2023.
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Experts theorized that ‘Oumuamua is a comet.
When ‘Oumuamua suddenly appeared in the inner solar system in 2017, and then left it just as rapidly, astronomers weren’t sure what to make of the cigar-shaped object. It moved a lot faster than a typical asteroid, and it didn’t leave a trail that would suggest it was a comet. Certain Harvard astrophysicists even proposed it could be an alien probe. In March of 2023, however, two ‘Oumuamua experts from Cornell and UC Berkeley said they believe it’s a comet after all—just one without a tail of gas and dust. They theorized that the interstellar visitor is powered by bursts of hydrogen from its icy core, which are released from the ice by the sun’s radiation. The amounts of gas are so small, they don’t show up as a tail, but they can still propel ‘Oumuamua through space.