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Microsoft Word 1.0 for MS-DOS was released on 29th September 1983.
You have almost 100 trillion bacteria in your gut weighing around 1.5 kg! This is more than the human cells in your body by a factor of 100 to one.
The brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than the time it takes for the brain to decode text.
Visual content makes up 93% of all human communication.
The Sun travels at a speed of 20 kilometers per second.
The length of the world's longest war in human history is 781 years.
The fear of worms is called helminthophobia.
A cat has 32 muscles in each of its ears.
A ferret can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
Humans share about 60% of genes with chickens - roughly the same amount as they do with bananas.
A fingerprint has 40 unique characteristics, but an iris has 256 - providing a reason why retina scans are good for biometric security.
Algeria is the largest country in Africa.
It took 90 years for the Leshan Giant Buddha statue to complete.
As of 2018, biologists have only identified 12% of Earth's animals.
Ithyphallophobia is the fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Trees recognize their children, sending them more carbon below ground and reducing their own roots to make room for their kids.
The taurus scarab is capable of pulling up to 1,141 times its own body weight, equivalent to the average human pulling around 11 T-rex.
On 16th September 1985, Steve Jobs would leave the company he co-founded, being forced out after losing a boardroom battle with then-CEO John Sculley. Then on 16th September 1997, Steve Jobs officially rejoins Apple as interim CEO.
On 23rd September 2008, the HTC Dream becomes the first commercially released Android smartphone.
On 19th September 1982, professor Scott E. Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon proposes the first known use of an emoticon. :-)
Chemicals knowns as polyphenols that are found in red wine can help fight harmful bacteria in the mouth and keep teeth healthy, Spanish researchers have found.
Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction TV series of all time.
As of 2018, the deepest humans have ever drilled into Earth's crust is 12,262 meters at the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia.
Octopuses have 3 hearts and blue blood.
Over 2.8 million people visited the tower of London in 2017.
If the Sun somehow went out, Earth's temperature would drop to -18ºC within a week, -73ºC within a year and -240ºC within a few million years.
Borneo pygmy elephants are nearly 3X smaller than African elephants.
The Revolution CT Scanner by GE can capture incredibly detailed images of whole organs in less than 1 second.
In 2018, there were over 1,600 different cryptocurrencies.
50 Million of our cells have died and been replaced in the time it's taken to read this.
As of 2015, Kansai International Airport in Japan had not lost a single item of luggage since opening in 1994.
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