Nose hairs are called "vibrissae."
Potatoes are not mentioned in the Bible.
The world's population is increasing by almost a quarter million people a day.
With each breath, you exchange about 1/6 of the air in your lungs.
All sturgeon caught in British waters legally belong to the Queen.
The technical name for a kazoo is a membranophone.
Milk cartons were invented in Sweden.
As many as 80,000 bees can belong to one beehive.
The sound of thunder travels about 1,100 feet per second. The light from a lightning bolt travels at, well, the speed of light, about 186,000 miles per second. So, if 5 seconds pass between seeing the bolt and hearing the thunder, it means the bolt was about a mile away.
Butterflies travel at about 12 miles per hour.
Burglaries are only the 7th most frequent cause of burglar alarms going off. Owner error is #1.
The sun converts more than 4 million tons of matter into energy every second.
The smell of peppermint has been found to improve the concentration of office workers.
The @ symbol, so common nowadays due to e-mail, is 500 years old.
Flies hum in the key of F.
20% of all road accidents in Sweden involve a moose.
In a single hour, your heart uses as much energy as it would take to lift a ton three feet off the ground.
In a lifetime, a human heart pumps enough blood to fill 45 oil tankers.
Six standard Lego pieces, with 8 posts, can be combined together in more than 100 million ways.
A person grows about 7 miles of hair per year.
The Pacific Ocean holds about 6 sextillion gallons of water (that's a 6 with 21 zeroes).
It takes about 100 years for a tin can to disintegrate completely.
Twelve people have walked on the Moon. Four of them were left-handed.
Only about 1/3 of the world's population eats with a fork
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