There are more trees on earth than there are stars in the Milk Way Galaxy. While the Milk Way boasts 100 billion stars, Earth tops that numbers with its 3 trillion trees.
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The largest living organism is the honey fungus, a giant mushroom that spans 2.4 miles (underground) across Oregon's Blue Mountains.
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Miss Piggy from The Muppets and Yoda of Star Wars were voiced by the same person: actor and puppeteer Frank Oz.
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The Polish Army enlisted a bear during World War II. Wojtek the Syrian brown bear eventually gained the rank of Corporal and often drank beer and smoked cigarettes.
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In Japan, more paper is used to make manga comic books than to make toilet paper.
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From when Pluto was discovered in 1930 to when it was declassified as a planet in 2006, it had not made a full orbit around the sun. In fact, the former planet takes 248 Earth years to complete its orbit.
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Kale, collard greens, Chinese broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, and broccoli all come from the same plant: brassica oleracea. They are just different breeds, or cultivars.
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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
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A small percentage of the static you see on "dead" tv stations is left over radiation from the Big Bang. You're seeing residual effects of the Universe's creation.
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When we breathe through our nose, we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other one — and this changes every 15 minutes.
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If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
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The woolly mammoth was still around when the pyramids were being built.
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There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe.
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If you somehow found a way to extract all of the gold from the bubbling core of our lovely little planet, you would be able to cover all of the land in a layer of gold up to your knees.
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It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
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Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.
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To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.
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It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
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Water bears, or Tardigrades, are typically 0.5 mm in length and can survive virtually anything. Even the vacuum of space.
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Basically anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before being melted.
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The critically endangered Kakapo bird has a strong, pleasant, musty odour which allows predators to easily locate it. Hence, it is critically endangered.
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In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew for the first time. 66 years later, man landed on the Moon in 1969.
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Note: A shorter version of this article was originally published by Kyle Russell and Steven Tweedie.
