**Bone weight is only 15% of total body weight.

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Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of TETRIS (1984) did not receive any royalties from one of the most popular video game noscripts until 1996 as the rights were owned by his employer, the Soviet government.

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:🏝 :Nauru is the only state without an official capital.

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Putting some dry tea bags in smelly running shoes or a smelly bag when not in use will absorb the musky scents while imparting some of their own more pleasant aroma.

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Penguin shifter is the rarest profession in the world.

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The highest temperature ever set by humans was produced in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. It was close to 10 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, over 370,000 times the temperature of the sun’s core.

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Drowning in salt water is different than drowning in freshwater. It takes longer, as salt water draws blood from the cells into the lungs, which makes you drown in your own blood.

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:🦁 :Lions, despite their huge teeth, do not chew their food but swallow large chunks of meat.

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The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes. They’re called Blaschko’s Lines, and they cover the body from head to toe. We just can’t see them.

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There are brain-eating amoebas.

- They inhabit fresh water and can enter the body through the nose, then proceed to consume brain tissue.

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Eating dates in the last 4 weeks before labour helps with birth.

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Termites, although behaving like ants, are actually evolved cockroaches.

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Earthworms are hermaphrodites. Each carries male and female reproductive organs. When mating, two individual earthworms will exchange sperm and fertilize each other's eggs.

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A sleep-deprived person consumes, on average, 400 calories more per day than usual.

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Walmart has it’s own private satellite 📡 communications network, and it’s the largest privately owned satellite network in the world.

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Iraqi officers during Operation Al-Fajr-8. Iran-Iraq war.

On the night of February 7, 1986, Iran launched Operation Al-Fajr-8 (Persian for "Dawn-8") to capture the Fao Peninsula. By February 12, Iran had completely captured the Fao Peninsula, losing 600 killed and 2,000 wounded as opposed to Iraq's 5,000 killed and wounded and 1,500 prisoners.

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Yahoo was originally called "Jerry's guide to the world wide web"

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