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spandex is an anagram for expands, and other facts


California produces over 80% of the world’s supply of almonds.

“Skepticisms” is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.

The average speed of ejaculation is 28 miles per hour.

Approximately half of the world’s estimated 10 million species of life are believed to be found only in rain forests.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver’s licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.

Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot tall child inside.

Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.

Moths have no stomach.

In Japan, the average number of eggs eaten each year by one person is 347.

Only female mosquitoes bite. They need protein from the blood for their eggs.

The higher your IQ, the more you dream.

Doctors recommend that you eat 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day. One serving is half a cup.

It takes 3,500 calories to make a pound of fat.

New research has found that lonely people have superior social skills compared to people who aren’t lonely.

Eating your food slowly will help you lose weight, enjoy your food, reduce stress, and lead to better digestion.

Freshwater fish don’t drink water, it just enters through their gills, but saltwater fish must drink tons of water and filter out the salt.

All of the American flags on the Moon are still standing, but they have turned white from exposure to the Sun.

The brains’s problem solving ability increases by 4% after regular exercise.

State senators in Minnesota are not allowed to make eye contact with each other while on the senate floor.

Wearing a suit encourages people to think more broadly and holistically.

Smart bullets curve their trajectory in mid-flight to hit moving targets.

A count in 2015 showed that China has more vineyards than France.

There is actually a site called www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com

Spandex is an anagram for ‘expands’.

Five thousandths of a millimeter is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories.

The canning process for herring was developed in Sardinia, which is why canned herrings are better known as sardines.

Almonds are members of the peach family.

Scientists have figured out a way to un-boil an egg.

In the popular fiction Game of Thrones, there were at least 998 Lord Commanders of the Night's Watch.

The University of Pennsylvania has produced 25 billionaires, the most of any college in the world.

In the U.S., Google searches for "why is my poop green" peak between 5 AM and 6 AM, while "how to roll a joint" peaks between 1 AM and 2 AM.

Each tree can absorb 4.8 pounds of CO2 - in a year, an acre of trees absorbs equal the amount of CO2 produced by driving a car 26,000 miles.

"United Passions," FIFA's movie promoting Sepp Blatter, made only $607 its first weekend in theatres. FIFA spent $25 million on the film.

Drug lord Pablo Escobar got to build his own prison - it featured a soccer field, a giant doll house, a bar, a jacuzzi and a waterfall.

It has been known that if people have sexual intercourse more frequently there is a tendency to have more boys born than females.

Scientists have successfully connected a person's brain to an android tablet. A paralyzed patient is now able to type and surf the internet with a neural implant and tablet.

The "Boondock Saints" made almost no money during its theatrical release, but pulled in $260 million in worldwide theatrical and DVD sales.

As of 2015, the total amount of groundwater on the planet, held in rock and soil below our feet, is estimated to be 23 million cubic km. If this volume hard to visualise, imagine the Earth's entire land surface covered in a layer some 180 meters deep.

Earth's rotation is also affected by tidal pull of moon, it slows down at the rate of about one millisecond per year. Earth's spinning was faster in the past. At that time, a day was about 22 hours long only.

If you go straight from work to school, you can deduct that mileage from your taxes, thanks to a law put in place in 2016 in the U.S.

If grasshoppers were the size of people, they could leap the length of a basketball court.

A study in 2016 showed that we toss away enough umbrellas each year to produce 25x Eiffel Towers' worth of waste.

Babies can use deductive reasoning before age one.

Mammoths were alive when they were building the Pyramids.

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