- You blink over 4 million times a year.
- Cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper.
- 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia.
- Modern mathematics has advanced greatly thanks to the incredible computing power of today's computers.
- Horses have 18 more bones than humans.
- The tiny pocket in jeans was made for pocket watches.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- Gorillas burp when they are happy.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years.
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