- You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
- The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1).
- A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.
- The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
- The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953.
- The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear.
- According to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.
- Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
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