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1. The human eye has a resolution of 576 megapixels.
2. The urine of a diabetic person contains so much sugar that it can be purified and made into whiskey.
3. Technically, our ears and noses continue to grow throughout our lives. This is not due to physiologic, rather physics factors, as gravity pulls the cartilages of our ears and noses down, stretching the skin and giving the impression of growth.
4. 75% of the world’s food stocks are made from 12 plants and five animal species. Think about that the next time you and your friends can’t decide on what to order.
5. Before the 17th century, science and scientists weren’t recognized as, well, scientists. They were actually called ‘’natural philosophers’’, because the concept of scientist wasn’t invented yet.
6. Grasshoppers have ears on their stomachs. On each side of the first abdominal segment of a grasshopper, right under the wings, they have membranes that vibrate when they are hit by sound waves
7. Lake Superior has an island, which has a lake, which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder. Wait, we’re not done yet – when the pond floods, it becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.
8. The nuclear bombs detonated in 1945 are the reason why experts can detect fake oil paintings. Isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 that can be found in oil did not exist in nature before the bombings. So, if a picture contains these isotopes, one can safely assume it was painted after 1945.
9. You are 10 times more likely to get bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
10. There are more different possible chess game variations (10^120) than there are atoms in the observable universe (10^80).
11. Scallops have up to 200 eyes.
12. Before radium was known to cause cancer, it was thought to have healing qualities. The public was so oblivious to its dangers that it was put in water, chocolate, suppositories and even inserted in the urethra to treat impotence.
13. Besides global warming, the next big thing that will change Antarctica’s ecosystem is penguin poop. For the last 5,000 years, penguins have provided the rocks in Antarctica with 16 million pounds of nutrient-rich poop, which can one day support plants and animals that can’t currently survive in Antarctica.
14. It would take you 900,000 Dromedary Camels, back to back, to cover the entire width of the Saharan Desert.
15. The award for the country with the most tornadoes per square mile goes to… the United Kingdom
16. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
17. Newborn babies pick up their parent’s accent while still in the womb.
18. Peanuts are legumes, not nuts. So technically speaking, people that are allergic to peanuts are actually allergic to legumes, not nuts.
19. There is a feeling similar to deja vu called ‘’deja reve’’. Instead of feeling like you’ve previously experienced an event in real life, deja reve makes you feel like you’ve previously experienced an event in a dream.
20. At birth, a baby blue whale weighs as much as its mother’s tongue.

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 Astronauts used to carry pistol in Space (TP-82)

Soviet cosmonauts used to carry a Triple barrelled pistol in their space missions.

They did not carry these pistols to fight off the rogue aliens but they carried these pistols to fight with the Siberian wildlife (bears and wolves) in case of the landings.

These pistols can be used to hunt, to protect themselves and to create audio and distress signals.

Above is the picture of TP-82 pistol in the army museum

Australian birds spread wild fires

There are birds in Australia that spread the wildfires so that they can flush out their prey out of the jungle. The birds pick up the burning sticks and drop them off in different parts of the wilderness to spread the fire.

Black kites, whistling kites and brown falcons spread these fires.

Female Gladiators aka Gladiatrix

Female Gladiators were called Gladiatrix. They fought with their male counterparts (Gladiators) shoulder to shoulder for the entertainment of the crowd and to serve their masters.

Earth was covered by Giant Mushrooms

Before the trees existed on the face of the earth, earth was believed to be covered by big white mushrooms. These mushrooms were believed to be 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

Pigeon poop is crown’s property in United Kingdom

Yes, you read it right. Pigeon poop is the property of the crown in the united Kingdom because it can be used to make gunpowder.

This was declared by King George 1 in the eighteenth century.

Wheels on the chair were invented by Darwin

Charles Darwin was known to be the first to put wheels on the chair as he liked to move from one place to another for the purpose of his research.

No specific time zones on South pole.

There are no specific time zones in Antarctica and arctic. Some of the reasons can be that no one lives there.

However, there are research stations on the south pole they are free to choose as to which time zone they want to operate in.

Horse feet tells about how the Rider Died

The feet of the horse in the statutes actually explains how the person riding the horse died.

1. If both the feet of the horse are on the ground - the rider died of natural consequences
2. If front legs of the horse are in air - the rider died in war
3. If one leg of the horse is in air - the rider died of wounds from the battle.

Some people think that equestrian statue is a myth and not a true fact. What I have read is there are some exceptions to this rule as well.

Millions of years ago - Penguins were 6Ft. Tall

The bones discovered in Seymour Island which are believed to be around 40 million years old are gigantic.

The penguin was termed as Mega Penguin and the species believed to be 6ft. tall is Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Myrcha.

The above image shows the comparative analyses of the penguins as we know them today and the penguins which went extinct.

Ghost marriages

Ghost marriages are prevalent in China and France, however it is prevalent all over the world.

The common belief is that the departed soul should not remain without a partner in the afterlife. It is a 3000 year old custom which can be observed in china even today.

World's largest desert is ANTARCTICA

We often imagine deserts to be hot with the sun shining at it's maximum, but factually Antarctica is the world's largest desert.

Point NEMO

Point Nemo is the farthest place from civilization on planet earth. Many of the spacecraft debris are accumulated at Point Nemo.

It is also known as the pole of inaccessibility.

Black and white Vision

Did you know that babies can only see white and black for first month of their birth ?

Yes babies can only see white and black for the 1st month. The reason that studies attribute to this phenomenon is that their retinal nerves are not fully developed.

Eiffel tower grows in summers

Have you ever heard of a non living thing growing?

Well, it does, the Eiffel tower grows in the summer season and can grow up to 6 ft. The reason is the iron expands in summers due to the heat.

The smallest dinosaur was 16 inches

Microraptor as the name suggests is the smallest dinosaur ever found. The fossil was discovered in China and it was estimated that at maximum microraptor would not have been bigger than 16 inches i.e equivalent to the size of the modern day pigeon.

Electricity generation from snow fall

Did you know that energy can be generated from snowfall ?

The scientists have developed a device called Triboelectric Nanogenerator or Snow TENG.

It is very thin and is very convenient to use. It can generate its own electricity and does not need any batteries of any sorts.

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 Some of the best facts I have come across :

1. Our Solar System takes 255 million years to rotate around the milky way.The last time earth was in its current position , dinosaurs were just beginning to roam the earth.

Yes you read it right!!

2. Saturn’s Titin store hydrocarbons which is about 10 times larger than the earth’s petroleum and natural gas reserves combined.

3. As there is no earth's gravity in the space , the vertebrae starts expanding in our body which leads to the height gain.

This is the reason why astronauts usually complains that their height has been increased by few inches in the space. :)

4. Titin is the largest known Protein ever discovered. (C169723H270464N45688O52243S912). It has the largest IUPAC name at 18,891 letters. It takes approximately 3.5hrs to read it entirely.

Thanks Quora :)

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 Sunflower at night

1. Plants don't have central nervous systems that seem to be key in what we think of as sleep in humans. But plants do have circadian rhythms tuned to Earth's 24-hour light-dark cycle, which they maintain even if they're kept in light fulltime, just as we do.But they do tune themselves to a 24-hour circadian rhythm, just like you.
2. The Earth appears to have a whole new underground continent called Zealandia. The discovery itself isn’t new – some geologists have been arguing for its existence for many years. However, in 2017 a team of scientists concluded Zealandia fulfils all the requirements to be considered a drowned continent.

3.Pugs’ cute little flat faces are the result of a genetic mutation

4. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times

5.In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world The average moderately active person takes around 7,500 step/day. If you maintain that daily average and live until 80 years of age, you’ll have walked about 216,262,500 steps in your lifetime.

6.Killer whales are actually dolphins

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Despite their name, killer whales or orcas are the largest members of the dolphin family. Technically, orcas are also whales because delphinids belong to the Cetacean order within the toothed whale (Odontoceti) suborder. However, the term whale is typically reserved for baleen whales of the Mysticeti suborder.

The major physical feature that ensures orcas are dolphins is the presence of a melon — a fatty deposit that assists the animals in echolocation and only exists in dolphins.

7 . An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body

8 The known universe is made up of 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy. In the Milky Way alone there might be as many 100 billion Earth-like planets.

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 Forget what you heard: Jupiter does not orbit the sun.

Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, gas giant, and subject of the Juno mission, is huge. Huge.

It's so huge, in fact, that it doesn't actually orbit the sun. Not exactly. With 2.5 times the mass of all the other planets in the solar system combined, it's big enough that the center of gravity between Jupiter and the sun doesn't actually reside inside the sun - rather, at a point in space just above the sun's surface.

Here's how that works.

When a small object orbits a big object in space, the less massive one doesn't really travel in a perfect circle around the larger one. Rather, both objects orbit a combined center of gravity.

In situations we're familiar with - like Earth orbiting the much-larger sun - the center of gravity resides so close to the center of the larger object that the impact of this phenomenon is negligible. The bigger object doesn't seem to move, and the smaller one draws a circle around it.

But reality is always more complicated.

For example: When the International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth, both the Earth and the space station orbit their combined center of gravity. But that center of gravity is so absurdly close to the center of the Earth that the planet's motion around the point is impossible to spot - and the ISS describes a near-perfect circle around the whole planet.

The same truth holds when most planets orbit the sun. Sol is just so much larger than Earth, Venus, Mercury, or even Saturn that their centers of mass with the sun all lie deep within the star itself.

Not so with Jupiter.

The gas giant is so big that its center of mass with the sun, or barycenter, actually lies 1.07 solar radii from the middle of the sun - or 7% of a sun-radius above the sun's surface. Both the Sun and Jupiter orbit around that point in space.

Let’s make things clear. Look at this GIF:

Image courtesy: NASA

That is, in essence, how Jupiter and the sun move through space together - though the distances and sizes are far different. Jupiter is still only a fraction of the sun's size.

But next time someone asks you for a crazy space fact you'll know: Jupiter is so massive, it doesn't orbit the sun.

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