You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206.
With an interior area of 348,000 square feet, the NASA vehicle assembly building is so large
that it has its own weather system, including rainclouds.
Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon.
A blue whale’s heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and you can actually swim through some
of its arteries.
There are more atoms in a single glass of water than glasses of water in all of the
Earth’s oceans.
Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right
now.
Charlie Chaplin once entered a contest for “Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came
in third place.
Falling out of bed kills 450 people annually in the United States.
The first man to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel later died by slipping on
an orange peel.
If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never
existed before.
And finally, Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see in the dark.
When they go to a lower deck with poor lighting, they can remove the patch and see better with
that eye since it’s used to the dark, whereas the other eye would take several minutes to
adjust to the change in light.