- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- Don't like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
- The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries.
- A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the sun.
- A shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- The opposite of a 'vacuum' is a 'plenum'.
- A lions feed once every 3 to 4 days.
- The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression.
- Sea otters hold each other's paws while sleeping so they don't drift apart.
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