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INTERESTING FACTS
The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.
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The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
The longest unbroken alliance in world history is between England and Portugal. It has lasted since 1386 and still stands today.
Before finally being accepted, J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter pitch was rejected by 12 publishers.
The Japanese term for a Shotgun Wedding is “Dekichatta kekkon,” which literally translates to “oops-we-did-it-marriage.”
Garlic is known to attract leeches.
In 1992, a shipping crate containing 28,000 rubber duckies fell overboard. They washed up around the world for the next 20 years.
After the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed because the pilot let his kids fly the plane who unknowingly disengaged the autopilot function. The crash killed everyone on board.
It takes Uranus 84 years to orbit the Sun once.
A 26-sided shape is known as a rhombicuboctahedron.
Mob boss Vincent Gigante used to wander around New York in his bathrobe to convince the police he was insane and avoid capture.
The military has used silly string to detect tripwires in Iraq. Before entering a room, they can squirt it inside. If it hangs in the air, it may have revealed a wire.
By applying even pressure to an egg, it is nearly impossible to break the shell by squeezing it.
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest. The last case of smallpox was in 1977, and the last of rinderpest was in 2001.
A recently discovered deep-sea snail, the Scaly-Foot Gastropod, has a shell that is impressively developed. So much so that the U.S. military is trying to use its design to inspire defensive layers in military armor.
There are over 6,000 known species of grass.
The total weight of all air on Earth is 11 quintillion pounds.
“Time anxiety” occurs in a person when they are perpetually afraid of being late or of others being late.
Ant queens can live for up to 30 years.
In 2014, Princeton researchers determined that Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2017.
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Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.
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Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
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Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
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Children grow faster in the springtime.
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It takes the stomach an hour to break down cows’ milk.
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Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.
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There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).