Michael Jackson wanted to play Spider-Man so badly that he even tried to buy Marvel Studios.

Water can boil and freeze at the same time under certain conditions.

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰:𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬,𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐞𝐲𝐞,𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐞𝐲𝐞,𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧.𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬,𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐏𝐮𝐭👌𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭.

The Finnish authorities are implementing a social programme to reduce salt consumption among the population. As a result, the number of strokes and heart attacks has almost halved.

Laughing came before language. How do we know? Some researchers tickled baby apes, which, beyond being adorable, showed that they share the same structure as ours and likely arose in our common ancestors millions of years ago. Language came about much later.

Ants weigh more than all humans on earth, with a total weight of 40 billion kilograms.

Your brain burns 400-500 calories a day. That’s about a fifth of your total energy requirements. Most of this is concerned with the largely automatic process of controlling your muscles and processing sensory input, although some studies show solving tricky problems increases your brain's metabolic requirements too.

An elephant is the only animal that can't jump.

At any given moment there are 1,800 thunderstorms happening on Earth.
Over the course of one year, this will amount to 16 million storms across the Earth!

Cockroach can live for over a week without a head until it starves to death

Giraffes can sleep in a unique position - bending their neck and resting their head on their own back, using it as a pillow.

Octopuses can squeeze through most anything.
Because their bodies do not contain bones, an octopus can squeeze through anything so long as their beak can fit.

The backstage laughter of most sitcoms was recorded in the 50s, so you're probably hearing the laughs of dead people

Everything you see happened in the past.
It takes approximately 50 milliseconds for visual information to process in your brain, by the time you actually see something, it already happened.

Rain odour has its own name - petrichor.

Cows are evolutionarily closer in genes to dolphins than to horses.

Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.
Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds by subjecting it to extremely high temperature and pressure. Be warned- the quality of diamond produced by the peanut butter won't be something to write home about. The resulting diamonds are typically very small and tend to be muddy in color.

Scientists have proven that consuming large amounts of sugar on a daily basis slows down brain function.

The most amazing thing about starfish is that they can change their gender if necessary.

Kakapo is the world's only flightless parrot.

If put in a big enough bath tub, Saturn would float.
Saturn is predominantly comprised of hydrogen and helium gas, giving it an overall density lower than that of liquid water. However, since the planet is not a uniform, rigid object, we can’t be sure that it would float without further experimentation. That’s an experiment that would take an awfully big laboratory!