- Cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper.
- A housefly hums in the key of F.
- Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely).
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals.
- The average person swallows 295 times during a meal.
- Household dust is made of dead skin cells.
- The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
- 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'.
- There are 2.5 million times more ants on earth than people (20 quadrillion of them).
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