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- "Dammit I’m Mad" is a palindrome.
- A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
- A bonobo has been diagnosed with autism.
- A camera surgically embedded into the back of the head of artist Wafaa Bilal sends still images every minute to a Qatar art museum.
- A cheetah can run at a top speed of 70 mph.
- A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.
- A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches -- the largest of any animal.
- A light bulb that hasn’t been turned off since 1901 still shines at a fire station in Livermore, Calif.
- A new dog food TV commercial features sounds only dogs can hear.
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch long and weighs less than a gram.
- A one-eyed “Cyclops” shark fetus was recently found in a pregnant dusky shark.
- A parasite of the order Isopoda eats the tongue of its host fish and then takes the place of the tongue.
- A pig, allowed to live in Irish farmhouses in olden days, was once known as "the gentleman that pays the rent."
- Abebe Bikila became the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal in 1960 when he won the Marathon -- running barefoot.
- About 2,200 pounds of circuit boards can contain 40 to 800 times the amount of gold normally mined from 2,200 pounds of ore.
- According to Irish legend, on judgement day Christ will be the judge all nations, but St. Patrick will be the judge of the Irish.
- Adolph Hitler was voted Time Magazine's man of the year in 1938.
- Adult great white sharks can swim up to 43 miles an hour.
- All clams are born as males, but can later turn into a female.
- Approximately half of all orangutans have fractured bones, mostly from falling out of trees.
- Astronauts Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had to go through US Customs to come back from the moon.
- At 100 mph, it would take about 98 days to drive to the moon.
- At 2,716 feet tall, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai sways about 10 feet at the top.
- At less than 40 feet per million years, Mexico's gypsum crystals are the slowest-growing ever measured.
- At the equator the Earth is spinning at almost 1,000 miles per hour.
- Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his baseball cap to keep him cool and changed it every two innings.
- Babies are born with more bones than adults have: around 300. Adults have 206.
- Bald eagles can swim using a movement of the wings that resembles the butterfly stroke.
- Beavers can hold their breath underwater for 45 minutes.
- Bill Gates (Software) is the fourth-richest man in American history after John D. Rockefeller (Oil), Andrew Carnegie (Steel) and Cornelius Vanderbilt (Railroads).
- Brown beer bottles drive male Australian jeweled beetles so wild that the beetles will try to mate with the bottles, which doesn’t work out well for the beetles.
- Bubblegum is usually pink because its inventor, Walter Diemer, only had pink food coloring at his factory.
- Camels have three eyelids (two with lashes) to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Charles Darwin's wife Emma was also his first cousin.
- Dino-era flying reptiles, called pterosaurs, grew as tall as giraffes and had wingspans almost as wide as a school bus.
- During a solar eclipse the drift of the moon's shadow across the Earth becomes its own weather front.
- During REM sleep the body is paralyzed by a mechanism in the brain.
- Each patch on a giraffe contains a set of blood vessels that regulate heat, helpful in the desert.
- Eastern diamond rattlesnakes can give birth up to five years after mating.
- Eighth President Martin Van Buren created the word "OK." During his campaign, Old Kinderhook (O.K.) clubs from Van Buren’s hometown supported the President.
- Electric motors have better acceleration than combustible engines. That's why Rimac Automobil's Concept_One can hit 62 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds.
- Elephants have the largest brain of any land mammal - nearly 11 pounds on average.
- Even though the Voyager 1 spacecraft is traveling at 10 miles per second through space, it would still take it 70,000 years to reach the nearest star.
- Fall leaves turn color because the green chlorophyll in them disappears as the tree prepares for winter, revealing the yellows and reds usually masked by green.
- Football legend Rosie Grier captured and disarmed Sirhan Sirhan after he assassinated Robert F. Kennedy. Grier was the bodyguard for Kennedy's wife.
- For every person there are roughly 170 million insects.
- Fragments of NASA's Skylab crashed near the town of Esperance, Australia, in 1979. The U.S. space agency was fined $400 for littering. They never paid.
- Gandhi covered the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles as a reporter.
- Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their necks: seven.
- Giraffes' tongues grow to 21 inches in length.
- Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses have driven more than 190,000 miles without a driver.
- Great white sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
- Hello was not always the first thing said over the phone. The first operating phone service was established in 1878 and the formal greeting was "ahoy."
- Hens can selectively eject the sperm of undesired mates, often that of lower status males.
- Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly forwards and backwards.
- If you put Mt. Everest on the seafloor next to Hawaii's Mauna Kea, Mt. Everest would be less than 10,000 feet above sea level.
- In 1897, Bayer, the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin as a cough medicine.
- In 1980, workers in a Las Vegas hospital were suspended because they bet on when patients would die.
- In November 2009, a Japanese man named SAL9000 married a digital avatar named Nene Anegasaki on the digital dating simulator Love Plus.
- In Scotland you are on the wrong side of the law if you are drunk and in possession of a cow.
- In Sweden, moose are known to get drunk on rotting, fermenting apples lying on the ground.
- Intense storms on the sun can kill satellites, zap astronauts and, occasionally, knock out entire power grids on the ground.
- It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just four years.
- Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital.
- Just 6.5 percent of all people ever born are alive today.
- Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a humanoid robot in the 15th Century.
- Male deep-sea squid are just as likely to mate with other males as with females.
- Many plants and animals are shrinking in size as the planet warms.
- Margaret Thatcher was part of a scientific team that discovered soft-serve ice cream.
- Marijuana, used for hemp, was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon.
- Marketed at prices of up to $3,000 per kilo, the White Truffle from Italy is the world's most expensive edible fungus.
- Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in the solar system with no moons.
- Ninety-seven percent of all U.S. money contains traces of cocaine.
- No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison: 1,093.
- Noise pollution is forcing some birds to sing at higher frequencies, making them less attractive.
- On Dec. 21, 2012 - “Doomsday” - nothing special is predicted to happen.
- On Nov. 30, 1954, a large meteorite crashed through the roof of Ann Hodges' Alabama house and bruised her hip. It was the first recorded instance of a meteorite hitting a person.
- One third of the world's population has never made a telephone call.
- People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams.
- Peter the Great executed his wife's lover, then forced her to keep her lover's head in a jar of alcohol in her bedroom.
- Pink is not an actual color. It is white light without the color green.
- Pluto may not be a planet anymore, but it has a whole family of worlds named after it, called "plutoids."
- Pucks hit by hockey sticks have reached speeds of up to 150 miles per hour.
- Recycling one million laptops saves the energy equivalent of electricity used in 3,657 U.S. homes in one year.
- Rogue waves, the huge waves that routinely sink ships at sea, are made of many, many small waves that come together to form a gargantuan wave.
- Saccharin is 500 times sweeter than sugar and is made from a compound of toluene, which is a solvent derived from petroleum.
- Saturn's moon Enceladus is covered in snow.
- Sloths sleep 15 to 20 hours per day.
- Spider silk is about five times stronger than steel of the same weight.
- Spider webs were used to cure warts during the Middle Ages.
- Super-fast maglev trains ride on a cushion of air that’s just 1/3 of an inch thick, using the repelling forces of magnets.
- T. rex teens grew as fast as 3,950 pounds per year.
- The "middle finger" gesture originates back to 423 B.C. in Aristophanes’ play, "The Clouds."
- The air flowing through a Boeing 767 engine at takeoff power could inflate a Goodyear Blimp in seven seconds.
- The Arctic now has an ozone hole too.
- The asteroid Vesta has a mountain that's three times higher than Mount Everest.
- The average Italian consumes half a pound of bread a day.
- The average lifespan of a major league baseball is seven pitches.
- The barnacle has the largest penis of any animal, relative to its size.
- The best way to get out of quicksand is to relax and float on your back.
- The biggest black hole known to exist lives in the nearby galaxy M87. It’s 2,000 times bigger than the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
- The brain of a roach is located inside its body. If it loses its head, it can live up to nine days.
- The cesium atom in an atomic clock pulses 9,192,631,770 -- just over 9 billion -- times a second.
- The custom of shaking hands with strangers was meant to show both the parties that neither was holding a gun.
- The earliest known same-sex ceremony was in 65 A.D. and Nero himself married the couple.
- The Earth is traveling around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour or about 18.6 miles per second.
- The Euthanasia Coaster, a rollercoaster conceived by a Lithuanian student, produces enough force to kill a person - 10 Gs .
- The farthest point from the center of the Earth is on the top of Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador at 20,561 feet.
- The fastest car on the planet in 1898 broke the land-speed record with a blistering 39.24 miles per hour.
- The fastest known mammal muscles belong to bats, which use the muscles to send out echolocation calls.
- The fastest motion of any joint in any athlete is the shoulder rotation in baseball pitching.
- The fastest shark is the Shortfin Mako, which can swim up to 60 miles per hour.
- The fastest spacecraft ever launched reached a breakneck speed of 44 miles per second! They were the 1974/76 Helios solar probes.
- The first drug law in America was in San Francisco and meant to prohibit "Chinese opium dens."
- The first novel ever written on a typewriter was “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
- The first rover to land on Mars only transmitted 15 seconds of data before a storm blew it over.
- The first synthetic dye was the color mauve, created when chemist William Perkin, trying to find a cure for malaria, instead created a massive mauve mess.
- The great great grandfather of Barack Obama came from Moneygall, County Offaly in Ireland.
- The heart of a blue whale weighs about 1,300 pounds and is the size of a small car.
- The human brain operates on 10 watts of power, about the same as an old-fashioned Christmas tree light.
- The humanoid robot I-Fairy married Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue in Tokyo on May 16, 2010 in the first-ever robot-led wedding ceremony.
- The hummingbird flaps its wings 40 to 90 times per second.
- The koala does not need to drink liquids. The majority of their water comes from the leaves they eat.
- The largest "killer" solar flare ever observed had the energy of 50 million trillion atomic bombs. It was unleashed by the star II Pegasi.
- The largest desert in the world is in Antarctica.
- The largest recorded tsunami was a wave 1,720 feet tall – over a quarter mile high. It struck Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958.
- The largest solar storm in recorded history - the "Carrington Event" in 1859 - was so powerful it caused telegraph cables to spark, electrocuting operators.
- The London transportation system called "the tube" is the first and the largest underground system in the world.
- The Mayan "Long Count" Calendar never foretold doomsday.
- The modern marathon was modeled on a run by a Greek soldier in 490 BCE from Marathon to Athens (about 25 miles) to inform the Athenians the outcome of the battle with invading Persians.
- The moon smells (and tastes) like burnt gunpowder. No one is quite sure why.
- The Netherlands has more tornadoes by area than any other country in the world.
- The number of people who were ever born in the world totals more than 100 billion.
- The periodic table was engraved onto a single hair from the head of chemist Martyn Poliakoff as a birthday present to him from colleagues.
- The pistol shrimp makes such a loud noise that it can kill fish.
- The slowest mammal on earth is the tree sloth. It moves at 6 feet per minute.
- The snowbound Donner Party, before perishing in the Sierra Nevada, ate pets, bones, twigs, glue, strings and finally each other.
- Three continents – Africa, South America, and Antarctica – have never hosted an Olympics.
- To find a hidden triple rainbow after a storm, look towards the sun.
- To take an oath, ancient Romans had to put a hand on their testicles.
- Triton, Neptune's largest moon, is the only moon in the solar system that orbits in the opposite direction.
- Triton, Neptune's largest moon, was probably once a dwarf planet, stolen from the Kuiper Belt.
- Uranus is the only planet in the solar system that orbits the sun on its side.
- Vice-President Andrew Johnson took his presidential oath while completely drunk. According to the New York Times, he was “glassy-eyed and smelling of whiskey.”
- Weighing in at 980 pounds, Paul Mason is currently the world’s heaviest man.
- Whale milk is 50 percent fat - around 10 times the fat content of human milk.
- What became Coca-Cola was intended to be a cure for headaches when Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton concocted it.
- You can determine the temperature outside by counting cricket chirps.
- Your mobile phone could be more than 400 times more powerful than the computers that helped NASA astronauts land on the moon in 1969.
- The first moon colonists will likely live in lunar caves.
- A pinhead-sized amount of neutron star material would weigh a million tons.
- A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star that blasts radiation from its poles.
- Methane exists in Mars' atmosphere, but scientists aren't sure where it comes from -- living things or volcanoes.
- Solar storms can knock out satellites, turning them into satellites that are dead but still move: "zombiesats."
- Space station astronauts see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day.
- The Hubble Space Telescope has carried out over a million scientific observations and adds more all the time.
- The Milky Way is thought to contain up to 400 billion stars.
- Our galaxy may contain over 50 billion alien worlds, according to calculations.
- It takes light 100,000 years to travel from one end of the Milky Way galaxy to the other.
- The oldest star discovered in our galaxy is 13.2 billion years old.
- There's enough water on the moon to fulfill Seattle's water needs for three years.
- The POOP SCOOP Robot walks your dog and picks up its poop for the low cost of $400,000.
- 123456 is the most common password hacked. Change your password.
- Steve Jobs's biological half-sister is Mona Simpson, the author.
- Giant amoebas called xenophyophores live in the ocean 6.6 miles down, in the crushing depths of the Mariana Trench.
- A Roman-era couple, buried together, has been holding hands for 1,500 years.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have died from a lack of Vitamin D.
- High-flying fleas get airborne by pushing off with their toes rather than with their knees.
- More than 200 million tons of human waste goes untreated every year.
- In developing nations, up to 20% of girls drop out of school because they have no place to go to the bathroom.
- There is 25 times more solar energy available every year than the Earth's total coal reserves.
- The 62 trillion SPAM emails sent each year produce as many CO2 emissions as 1.6 million cars.
- Nearly 80 percent of land-dwelling species disappeared 252 million years ago.
- Of all animals, only humans blush, and we begin to blush at about three years old.
- Our hair and nails do not continue to grow after we die. They just appear to as our other body parts dry out and contract.
- A healthy human hair is almost as strong as copper wire of the same diameter.
- Round hair follicles produce straight hair, oval follicles curly hair.
- Rigor mortis begins within six hours of death, starting with the eyelids.
- The spider has more than 3,000 sensors embedded in its exoskeleton – the better to track you.
- Women sprinters are more likely to get away with false starts because of their lighter weight.
- Bacteria in your gut can affect your weight and even your behavior.
- There has been only one documented case since 1974 of a deadly Halloween treat killing a child. His father did it.
- In its shell, the cashew nut is surrounded by a caustic oil that can burn the skin.
- Earthworms are an invasive species in North America, first introduced by early European settlers.
- The Apollo astronauts were quarantined for 21 days after their moon mission in case they were infected with an alien virus.
- The dinosaur called Apatosaurus had its nostrils on top of its head. No one knows why.
- There were no flying dinosaurs or swimming dinosaurs. All dinosaurs lived on land.
- Most insects are edible. Even bees and scorpions can be eaten (remove stingers).
- Black holes aren’t black. They glow slightly, giving off what's called Hawking Radiation.
- Leonardo da Vinci conceived of a flying machine 400 years before humans actually flew.
- The American tradition of red barns came from a 17th-century wood-preserving paint made of milk, lime, red iron oxide and linseed oil.
- Chickens lay their eggs with a coating, called a bloom, that preserves the eggs for up to two weeks.
- A species of ant smells like fresh coconut when smashed.
- The 7 billionth human was born on October 31, 2011.
- A 200-foot-tall clock that runs for 10,000 years will be buried in a remote West Texas cave by the Long Now Foundation.
- Future computers will run on DNA.
- Gecko lizards are the only vertebrates that can walk upside across a glass ceiling.
- A special net designed to capture mountain fog can collect 2,500 quarts of drinking water day.
- Dogs walked by men are four times more likely to threaten other dogs.
- Human baby cries are nearly identical in structure to lion and tiger roars, which are simply at a lower pitch.
- Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, may actually be asteroids captured by Martian gravity.
- Life may have crash-landed on Earth in the form of alien bacteria hitchhiking inside meteorites.
- The Saturn moon Hyperion resembles a sea sponge.
- Libyan rebels dug up a photo album completely filled with pictures of former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Moammar Gadhafi's abandoned compound in Tripoli.
- The earliest Europeans shared turf with Neanderthals around 45,000 years ago.
- To promote the passing game in football, NFL bosses changed the shape of the football in 1934. They made the ball longer and skinnier.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Charles de Gaulle's final words were, "It hurts."
- Steve Jobs's last words were "OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."
- Space is not empty; it's thought to be buzzing with "virtual particles" popping in and out of existence.
- A powerful laser capable of ripping holes in spacetime is planned for construction in Europe.
- A Fermilab scientist is building a "holometer," designed to investigate whether we live in a hologram.
- Until 1875 we had no proof that horses at a gallop took all four feet off the ground. Eadweard Muybridge invented high-speed photography to prove it.
- The oldest surviving tree species evolved 160 million years ago during the Jurassic era. Ichou trees are still grown in Japan today.
- Antarctica has more than 300 lakes under the ice that might host microbial life. But no one has broken through to find out for sure ... yet.
- Up to 90 percent of the species living in the waters off southwestern Australia are found nowhere else on Earth.
- A giant iceberg, larger in area than New York City, could break away from Antarctica by 2012.
- A glacier crack that's growing in Antarctica is currently deep enough to fit the Statue of Liberty.
- Kayaking or paddling in polluted rivers can make you sick, even if you don't fall in.
- Red in fall leaves comes from a pigment that the leaves make only in the fall - scientists don't know why.
- The deepest hole ever dug was 7.5 miles (12.262 kilometers) deep, less than a third of the way through the Earth's crust.
- Polar bears have black skin.
- Polar bear fur isn't white. It's translucent. It looks white because of the way it reflects light.
- Polar bear hairs are hollow, so they can trap air and help keep the bear warm.
- The longest recorded swim for a polar bear was 232 consecutive hours. That's 9 days and 16 hours!
- Polar bear males can weigh more than 1,500 lbs. But when they are born, they weigh only 2 lbs.
- It takes the Earth 1 year and 6 hours to orbit the sun. To account for this, an extra day is added to the calendar every 4th year (leap year).
- A single fungi under the ground can be as big as 30 acres.
- The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is the sound of gas bubbles between the knuckles bursting.
- Human can live unprotected in space for about 30 seconds - if they don't hold their breath.
- In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
- A Brazilian man who held his breath underwater for 20 minutes 21 seconds holds the world record.
- The first email was sent in 1971 over the ARPANET between two computers that sat side by side.
- The first sound ever recorded was a woman singing Claire de Lune in 1860.
- In 1895, the first portable motion picture camera could capture, develop and project a film.
- In average density, the sun is thicker than water on Earth.
- The sun rotates on its axis like Earth does. But one "day" on the sun's equator equals about 25 Earth days.
- Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 will be the first man-made object to leave the solar system.
- Voyager 1 will pass another planetary system in the year 40,272 AD.
- Due to their high metabolism, hummingbirds must eat twice their body weight every day.
- Rodents in the shrew family must eat 3.3 times their own weight every 24 hours to avoid starvation.
- The lungfish can go more than four years without a meal.
- Usain Bolt ran the 100 meter dash in Berlin in 2009 with 41 strides in 9.58 seconds. He holds the world record in that event.
- In 1988, Yannis Kouros ran 1,000 miles in 10 days, 10 hours, 30 minutes and 35 seconds, breaking the world record by over 34 hours.
- The world's smallest seahorse is smaller than a postage stamp.
- If you removed all of the space between the atoms and molecules that make up the Empire State Building, the building would be reduced to the size of a grain of rice.
- New York and London are moving apart about two centimeters a year.
- Parrotfish create much of the sand around coral reefs by eating chunks of coral and pooping it out as sand.
- Some female kinds of fish, like parrotfish, can spontaneously change into males.
- The smallest car in the world measures approximately 4 x 2 nanometers, about one billion times smaller than a VW Golf.
- Water can exist in all three states of matter -- solid, liquid and gas -- at the same time.
- The highest structures in Arizona are the stacks from the the Navajo Generating Station coal burning power plant.
- Complex lifeforms, like jellyfish, might survive in the protected sub-surface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa.
- Our sun spins at 2 kilometers per second at its equator. But the fastest-spinning star known spins at 600 kilometers per second!
- Some galaxies store their waste in vast halos, recycling the gas for new stars and extending their lifespans.
- Elephants are the only animal that takes longer to learn to walk than humans.
- For at least 20,000 years after the "Great Dying" 252.28 million years ago, 3 percent of its species died every 1,000 years.
- Over 80 percent of the sources, opinions and editorials skeptical of climate change are found in the US or UK press.
- Hookworms can live in the small intestines of humans and never be detected.
- Some species of tapeworm, an intestinal worm that can infect humans, grow to 100 feet long.
- Thanksgiving didn't become a national holiday until 1863, when Abraham Lincoln set it for the last Thursday in November.
- The first Pilgrims, in 1620, were taught how to survive in the New World by a Putuxet Indian named Squanto.
- The first Thanksgiving feast, in 1621, included fowl and deer, though the exact menu was never written down.
- Nearly 90 percent of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
- The Army is building a hypersonic flying bomb that can hit a target anywhere in the world -- in one hour.
- Mars is only half the size of the Earth, measuring 4,200 miles in diameter.
- You could jump three times higher on Mars than on Earth; gravity on Mars is only 37 percent that of Earth's.
- Crossing the largest-known impact crater of any planet in the solar system, Mars' Hellas, would be like driving from Atlanta to Albuquerque.
- NASA's recently launched Mars rover Curiosity could run for 10 years on its plutonium power source.
- A Kiwi bird is similar in size to a chicken, but its one-pound egg is six times bigger than a chicken egg.
- India Gul Mohammed is the shortest living person at 22.5 inches.
- Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean is the most remote island on Earth. The nearest land is Antarctica, 994 miles away.
- President Cleveland bought his friend's daughter her first baby carriage at birth, and married her in the White House when she was 21.
- Some wasps recognize other wasp faces better than any other kind of object.
- NASA's Planetary Protection Officers make sure we don't accidentally contaminate other planets and that WE don't get contaminated by alien lifeforms.
- Mars rover "Curiosity" is carrying spare drill bits for when its robotic drill needs a fresh one.
- Bamboo would be an ideal plant for Mars colonists to grow. It's fast growing, hardy and can be used to build furniture.
- A "wet burp" may occur in space if you drink a carbonated liquid, like beer, and try to burp. Liquid will be ejected.
- Nikola Tesla invented Tesla coils, which can generate electrical arcs up to 100,000,000 volts.
- Nikola Tesla patented a radio-controlled robot-boat in 1898.
- If underwater turbines could harness just 1/1000 of the energy of the Gulf Stream's current, they could power 7 million homes.
- Electricity generated from waves, tides, deep-water currents and off-shore wind farms could power 240 million homes by 2050.
- The Appalachian mountains in the Eastern United States were once as high as the Himalayas.
- Betelgeuse, a red giant star that forms the right arm of the constellation Orion, is 800 times larger than our sun.
- The Appalachian Mountains are the fourth range to occupy the Eastern United States. The others were raised and worn down over the last billion years.
- It takes 3481 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
- The guinea pig-sized Hyrax shares an ancestor with the elephant, despite their enormous size difference.
- The Guinness Book of Records-holder for "most pounds of bees worn on the body" attracted 87 pounds of bees.
- The world's most expensive coffee ingredient is ... dung.
- In ancient sacred texts, God had a wife, named Asherah, who was worshiped alongside the Almighty.
- Ice cream can be made from any kind of milk, including breast milk. But a London parlor that tried it was ultimately shut down.
- Humans, even though they look pretty hairless, still have the same density of hair follicles as a chimp or gorilla the same size.
- Rats show altruism: Given the choice, test rats will often choose to help liberate a fellow rat rather than eat a treat.
- The world's earliest known animals look like baseballs.
- A newly discovered cockroach, called Leaproach, can jump 50 body lengths (we can only manage about two).
- The venom of the box jellyfish is among the most powerful in the world. It has caused at least 5,567 human deaths since 1954.
- Astronomers are tracking a cloud of gas that will get eaten by the black hole in the center of our galaxy 27,000 light-years away.
- Asteroid Vesta is not an asteroid at all -- it's actually a baby planet.
- Astronomers have spotted the debris of a "comet storm" deep inside Eta Corvi, a star system 50 light-years from Earth.
- Some black holes are shrouded in the ground-up remains of dead planets, which become a thick, dusty ring.
- More of Mars is habitable for life as we know it than on Earth, but all of it is deep underground.
- The artificial sweetener xylitol is being used in a brand of cycling shoes to cool sweaty feet.
- A new battery runs on shredded paper and produces water as a waste product.
- The fastest video in the world can record a trillion frames per second, enough to show a beam of light moving between two points.
- The world's smallest steam engine is just a few micrometers across and made from a tiny plastic bead floating in water.
- Every year at the World Cell Race, scientists race biological cells in Petri dishes.
- In virtual reality tests, an overwhelming number of people kill one person in order to save five.
- The world's largest Tesla coils will be 10 stories high and generate 200-foot-long arcs of high-voltage electricity.
- A new urinal lets men play a video game by steering and adjusting their "flow."
- A new home lighting system runs on glowing bacteria that eat waste.
- Monsoons in Nepal delay earthquakes.
- The Dead Sea was a beach about 120,000 years ago.
- The herbicide atrazine causes testes to lose sperm.
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