- Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- 20% of all the oxygen you breathe is used by your brain.
- Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.
- The softest known mineral is talc.
- Aichmophobia is the fear of needles and pointed objects.
- Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.
- In 1634, Tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
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