Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks! Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second! A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards. When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight. Your skin is actually an organ.… Read more →
More than half of the oxygen you breathe comes from marine photosynthesisers, like phytoplankton and seaweed. In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company in the world to deliver its food to outer space, they paid a million dollars to send a salami pizza to the International Space Station (ISS). Beekeepers wear white beekeeping suits because white is the least… Read more →
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music. A B-25 bomber aeroplane crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly. The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer. The volume of the Earth’s moon is the same as… Read more →
A wine that has a musty smell, similar to wet cardboard or mold, may mean that the bottle is “corked” (the bottle has a contaminated cork. Muscles absorb alcohol faster than fat. As a result, people who have more muscles and less body fat have higher alcohol tolerance. The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -89 Celsius (-129 Fahrenheit)… Read more →
