The world record for the loudest thing ever shouted belongs to an Irish teacher who shouted the word "quiet" at 121 decibels, the equivalent of a jet engine.
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Making a hole by curling the fingers and looking through it will allow short- or long-sighted people to see or read something that they normally couldn't do without glasses.
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15 minutes of exercise everyday can add 3 years to your life.
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A 15 year old hacker, Jonathan james', action made NASA shutdown its network for three entire weeks to investigate the breach. He had hacked into NASA's network to download source code equaling the value of 1.7 million dollars to learn how the internation space station worked.
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The solar system rotates around the galaxy once every 225- million years. The last time we were in our current position, dinosaurs were just beginning to walk the Earth!
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When your mother was born, she was already carrying the egg that would become you.
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A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale's heart.
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During pregnancy, if the mother suffers organ damage, the baby in the womb sends stem cells to repair the damaged organ.
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Planetary scientist Eugene Merle Shoemaker is the only human to have been buried on the moon.
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Before the invention of railways, it was believed that people would suffocate if they travelled faster than 30mph as they would not be able to breathe due to the surrounding air rushing past them.
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