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Science Facts

  • Space smells like seared steak.
  • Some fungi create zombies, then control their minds
  • It's impossible to hum while you hold your nose
  • 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest.
  • Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with water.
  • Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve stainless steel
  • A flea can accelerate faster than the Space Shuttle

Word Facts

  • The longest English word is 189,819 letters long
  • Scotland has 421 words for “snow”

Food facts

  • McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli
  • Bananas grow upside-down
  • Apples give you more energy than coffee
  • Honey doesn't spoil
  • A piece of cake more than 4,000 years old was found in a tomb in Egypt

Animal facts

  • Elephants are the only animal that can't jump
  • Octopi lay 56,000 eggs at a time
  • Blue whales eat half a million calories in one mouthful

History facts

  • The world’s oldest toy is a stick
  • Albert Einstein’s eyeballs are in New York City

    • Human facts

  • Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails
  • Babies are born with 300 bones and adults have 206
  • The man with the world’s deepest voice can make sounds humans can’t hear