When a person dies his sense of hearing is the last to go.
One-third of Earth's land surface is partially or totally desert.
The human body emits upwards of 10^6 biological particles per hour creating a detectible microbial cloud into surrounding indoor air.
President Obama calls UK's PM David Cameron "bro".
It's illegal in many countries to perform surgery on an octopus without anesthesia due to their intelligence.
If Ancient Rome's Colosseum was built today it would cost about US$380 million.
Eigengrau (“brain gray”) is the color your eyes see in total darkness.
The current library at Alexandria has a copy of all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.
Pope Paul VI claimed that animals can go to heaven.
The “dot” over the letter “i” is called a tittle.
We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp.
More gold is recoverable from a ton of personal computers than from 17 tons of gold ore.
“Almost” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
In 1973 the crew of Skylab 4 staged the first strike in space. They requested time off to "look out the window and think."
Until the 19th century the English word for actors was "hypocrites."
The crack of a whip is actually a tiny sonic boom since the tip breaks the sound barrier.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
A heartbroken Argentine farmer spent decades cultivating a guitar-shaped forest to honor his late wife.
If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska only 28 people would live on the island.
Squirrels cannot see the colour red.
Apiphobia is the fear of bees.
Chile has a civilian town in Antarctica complete with a school hospital hostel post office Internet TV and mobile phone coverage.
Only 37.9% of people have access to the Internet once a year or more.
Premature babies are more likely to be left-handed many studies suggest.
Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
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Bolivia was not a landlocked country. Its territory on the Pacific Ocean was lost to Chile after the War of the Pacific in the mid 19th century.
An Indian woman who lost her leg after being thrown from a moving train became the first female amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013.
Disneyland opened in 1955.
The largest giant squid ever found weighed 8,000 pounds.
The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotam-eteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokai-whenu a kitanatahu – a New Zealand hill.
The UK spent US$15.8 billion in a health service computer system that failed and was shut down in 2013.
The Bermuda Triangle has as many ship and plane disappearances as any other region of the ocean.
Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized a significant portion of his doctoral dissertation from one written by another student 3 years earlier.
In middle school 74% of girls express interest in Science Technology Engineering and Math but when choosing a college major just 0.4% of high school girls select computer science.
There is a 180-foot (55-meter) long stuffed pink bunny on top of a hill in Italy.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
Sam Houston the general who won Texas independence from Mexico was removed from his post as Governor after refusing to support the Confederacy on the Civil War.
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world's lakes combined.
Nintendo had a chain of sex hotels in the 1950s.
The U.S. Army admitted it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard gas agents into the ocean from 1944 to 1970 along with 400 000 chemical-filled bombs and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste.
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