- A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute).
- The air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- The meaning of 'Blue Chip' comes from blue casino chips which have a high value.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left.
- A violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood.
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
- A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
- It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.
- Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year.
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