- 10% of with world's food supply is consumed by insects.
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
- Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%).
- Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles.
- Einstein slept 10 hours a night.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- Only male turkeys gobble.
- Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain.
- Pez was invented in 1927.
- March 14 is 'save a spider day'.
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