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Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton. A human brain weighs around 3 pounds. Over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States. The word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese. A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers. The ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine and not a food. A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound. That in developed countries 27% of food is thrown away. Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur. Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you'll soon fall in love. reload more facts