- The word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
- Cows don't have upper front teeth.
- Whales can't swim backwards.
- A 'googolplex' is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can't be written because there literally isn't enough room in the entire universe to fit it in!.
- A baby fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks.
- The hottest chile in the world is the habanero.
- The Earth experiences over 50,000 earthquakes a year.
- There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.
- The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other.
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