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If i wouldn't have married my first wife,i would have a bigger bank account.

The adult human body has around 60,000 miles of blood vessels, enough to go round the equator twice with some to spare.

Don't try this at home.

There are over 70 documented cases of transplant patients experiencing the same thoughts and feelings as their original donors did in life, although the recipients knew nothing about their donors. People reported everything from craving the donor's favourite foods, to inheriting their talents. This has triggered research into the possibility that body cells can store memory.

If you've been pooping out small nut-shaped nuggets, this is a warning sign from your body that you need a lot more water and fibre.

From the time it was discovered (1930) to when it was declassified as a planet (2006), Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun.

A Venus day is longer than a Venus year.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

A baby is born with 270 bones; by adulthood they will have 206 bones, a quarter of which are in the feet.

Not in Bermuda, Iran, Macedonia, Montenegro, Yemen, NoKo, Zimbabwe, Bolivia or Iceland.

While Chicago has blustery days like any other metropolis, its wind is not exceptional and it's nickname of 'Windy City' has nothing to do with weather and all to do with its people.

19th c journalists first gave Chicago this designation when describing the city’s elite as 'full of hot air', and 'windbags' with 'inflated egos' who cared about 'nothing but profit'.

All snowflakes have 6 sides; no two flakes are identical.

March 1992, Syracuse, NY: More than 162 inches of snow had fallen on the city, prompting the Syracuse Common Council, privy to forecasts of no more snow, to impress the people by outlawing any more snow before Christmas Eve of that year. It started snowing again two days later.

March 2015: The town of Capracotta in southern Italy holds the record for most snow in one day, more than 100 inches in 18 hours.

Guinness: Tallest Snowman was 122' tall and took a month to build.

Originally Posted by jabir

no two flakes are identical.

Can't be proven

Know your Nature

Elevation vs altitude: Elevation is a point above sea level on land, altitude same but in the air.

Lake vs pond: A pond is shallow enough for light to penetrate to the bottom, whereas in a lake it doesn't. Although there is no set size for either, most geographers agree that a lake is bigger than 12 acres, and smaller than that it’s a pond.

Dusk vs twilight: Dusk happens once a day, after sunset, the darkest stage of twilight which occurs when the sun is below the horizon but still showers the landscape with indirect light. Twilight happens twice every day, before sunrise and then again after sunset.

Weather vs Climate: Weather can be tracked daily and is specific from region to region. Climate is more wide-ranging and tracked over long periods of time. Iow, climate is a trend, while weather is a more immediate variant.

Island vs continents: A continent is a landmass of low-density rock. An island is a landmass composed of heavier rock risen partially above sea level. Greenland is the world’s largest island, not Australia, which is technically a continent.

Canyon vs gorge: Both are deep ravines with a stream or river cutting through the bottom, but canyons have wider, sloping walls, whereas gorges are much narrower and steeper. The Columbia River Gorge in Oregon and Washington is actually a canyon.

Stalagmite vs stalactite: Both formed by water and minerals, a stalactite hangs 'tight' from a cave ceiling (it contains c, for ceiling) while a stalagmite has a g for 'ground'.

Bog vs Swamp vs Marsh: All three are types of wetlands. A bog is on high ground so water drains away and is replenished by rainfall; it is covered in peat moss, making it difficult for aquatic animals to survive there. Swamps are low, flat areas where slow-moving water collects; usually muddy and home to trees and fish. A marsh borders a lake, ocean, or other large body of water, has grasses and reeds but not trees or peat, and lots of underwater life and birds.

Hail vs sleet: Both are falling ice chunks, but hail is larger because it formed by winds pushing a small lump of ice high into the atmosphere, sometimes several times, making it grow larger and larger until it’s heavy enough to fall. Sleet isn’t prone to these massive updrafts, so it doesn’t take as much ice forming around a water droplet before gravity kicks in and makes it drop.

Hurricane vs cyclone vs typhoon: All describe the same kind of oceanic storm with sustained winds higher than 74 mph; the difference is in their location. If it strikes North America from the Atlantic Ocean, it’s a hurricane (Hurikan, the Mayan god of evil). If it strikes China or Japan it’s called a typhoon (Greek tuphõn, “whirlwind”), though Southeast Asians call it baguios. In the Indian Ocean it’s called a cyclone (coined 1848 by English scientist Captain H. Piddington, deriving from the Greek kyklon, “to move in a circle.”) Any storm with a circular motion that isn’t strong enough to be a hurricane or typhoon, is referred to as a cyclone.

City vs town vs village: A city is governed by a single entity (mayor and city council) enclosed in a larger entity (county, state, country). A town is smaller than a city, but like a city it can also have a mayor. But unlike a city, a town’s municipal services (utilities, transportation) are handled by the county. A village has no central governing body and can be part of a town or city. Other definitions vary by population and other features, such as cathedrals.

10% of all photos and videos ever taken, are estimated to have been taken this year.

IKEA estimates that 10% of Europe's children were conceived in its beds.

Summer on Neptune lasts 40 years, through which its mean temperature is around -200 °C.

Originally Posted by jabir

There are over 70 documented cases of transplant patients experiencing the same thoughts and feelings as their original donors did in life, although the recipients knew nothing about their donors. People reported everything from craving the donor's favourite foods, to inheriting their talents. This has triggered research into the possibility that body cells can store memory.

Pretty amazing, if true.


As is Menstrual synchrony (also called the McClintock effect). The menstrual cycle of two women living in close proximity will sync together.

During Prohibition, distillers, moonshiners and smugglers wore cow shoes over snow, leaving hoofprints instead of footprints, to evade police.

Since founding the Imagination Library in 1995, Dolly Parton has donated more than 100 million books to children.

Originally Posted by jabir

Summer on Neptune lasts 40 years, through which its mean temperature is around -200 °C.

And the wind speed almost reaches 2,200kph. Nearly twice the speed of sound on Earth.