- Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
- Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.
- Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent.
- The word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'.
- 93% of households in Denmark consume wine (the highest % in the world with France second with 85% of households).
- Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away.
- Atychiphobia is the fear of failure.
- Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062).
- Wind doesn't make a sound until it blows against an object.
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
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