- 75% of the U.S.'s tart cherries come from Michigan.
- In zero gravity, a candle's flame may appear circular and blue.
- You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- You begin to feel thirsty when your body losses 1% of water.
- A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.
- The odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1.
- Not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks).
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
- The word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.
- The world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years.
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