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The human body replaces most of its cells every 7 to 10 years — but neurons in the cerebral cortex last a lifetime.
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
The enamel on your teeth is the hardest substance your body produces.
Humans are bioluminescent — we emit a faint visible light, too weak for the naked eye to detect.
The retina of the eye processes light and sends signals to the brain faster than any camera ever made.
Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
The human body has around 650 skeletal muscles.
Your brain is about 73% water — even mild dehydration can impair cognitive performance.
The average person produces about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime — enough to fill two swimming pools.
Cashews grow outside the cashew apple fruit — what looks like the nut is the seed.
The shortest commercial flight in the world is between two Scottish islands — it lasts about 90 seconds.
There is enough gold in Earth's core to cover the entire surface of the planet in 1.5 feet of gold.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The inventor of the Frisbee was cremated and turned into a Frisbee after he died.
A sneeze travels faster than a Category 1 hurricane.
The word 'trivia' comes from the Latin trivium — the three subjects taught at medieval crossroads schools.
Honey bees must visit about two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance and a group of rhinos is called a crash.
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a distress signal — plants release chemicals when damaged.
Fire is not a solid, liquid, or gas — it's a plasma and a chemical reaction happening simultaneously.
The Twitter bird's official name is Larry, named after Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics.
A group of hedgehogs is called a prickle, a group of sloths is called a bed.
Crows hold funerals — when one dies, others gather around the body, apparently to assess threats.
The first novel written on a typewriter was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain in 1876.
There are more atoms in a grain of sand than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches.
The loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 — it was heard 3,000 miles away.
The average person spends about two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
Every year, the Moon moves about 3.8 centimeters further away from Earth.
A bolt of lightning is only about as wide as a thumb — the bright flash makes it appear much wider.
It would take about 100,000 years to walk a light-year at a normal walking pace.
The total weight of all ants on Earth roughly equals the total weight of all humans.
The first product to have a barcode scanned at retail was a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum in 1974.
More people are killed each year by vending machines falling on them than by sharks.
The word 'checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat' meaning 'the king is dead.'
Bubble wrap was originally invented as textured wallpaper before finding its packaging purpose.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time — 1/100th of a second in computing.
Playing video games has been shown to improve surgical precision — surgeons who game make 37% fewer errors.
A day on Earth is not exactly 24 hours — it's 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds.
There are 10 times more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.
The average cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds — held aloft by rising warm air currents.
The average Google search uses about 0.3 watt-hours of electricity.
More than 90% of the world's currency exists only digitally — not as physical cash.
The first iPhone had no copy and paste functionality — it wasn't added until the 3.0 software update in 2009.
Bluetooth is named after Harald Bluetooth, a 10th-century Danish king — the logo combines his initials in runic letters.
Netflix was founded as a DVD mail rental service — it didn't launch streaming until 2007.
The first hard drive, released in 1956, weighed over a ton and stored only 5 megabytes.
The GIF format is older than the World Wide Web — it was invented in 1987.
The world's first programmable computer, the Colossus, was built secretly in Britain during World War II to decode Nazi messages.
The first video game ever sold commercially was Computer Space in 1971, before Pong.
QWERTY keyboard layout was designed in 1873 partly to separate commonly used letter pairs and reduce mechanical jamming.