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Are you one of those curious souls like me who wonder how much water trees drink per day, whether planets can float on water, and why guinea pigs popcorn? Yeah, I know it's weird, but I'm a curious kind of guy. Get ready to find the answers to these and many other burning questions!

Cats don't actually know how to use a litter box; their instinct helps them. Their ancestors used it to hide their scent from more dominant cats and other predators.

The word "muscle" comes from the Latin "little mouse." People in ancient Rome thought some muscles, like a flexed bicep, had a mouse-like shape.

Your body gives off a tiny amount of light, but nobody can see it with the unaided eye. In other words, you're glowing!

Babies only make crying sounds but shed no tears until they're at least several weeks old.

Owls don't have eyeballs, really. Their eyes are shaped more like tubes and held in place by special bones. On the bright side, owls can turn their necks 270 degrees in both directions, plus 90 degrees up and down, and they don't even need to move their shoulders for that!

Nerves are connected throughout your body, carrying information from the brain to different organs and back at breakneck speed, up to 260 miles per hour.

The human heart beats, on average, more than 3 billion times during its lifespan.

Your nose has at least 400 different scent receptors. That's why most people can detect around 1 trillion different smells, which is three to four times as many as the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy!

An apple is almost 20% air, which is why it floats when placed in water. Anyone for some apple bobbing?

Pineapples are super slow growers. If you plant the top of a pineapple, you'll have to wait for two to two-and-a-half years for it to start blooming.

American Buffalo herds often make decisions by voting. For example, when they choose where to travel, animals stand up one by one, look in a particular direction, and then lie down again. In most cases, the herd then moves in the direction that got the most looks.

Roger Miller says you can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd.

At first sight, the fluffy rock hyrax doesn't look somewhat impressive. The animal lives in some parts of Africa and the Middle East, but this 10-pound creature is one of the closest relatives of the 10,000-pound elephant.

Your brain tends to change memories with time, which is why you're likely to have at least one false piece of memory or even a whole lot more.

The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire. The educational institution was established in 1096, while the Aztec Empire was founded 332 years later in 1428.

Your blood makes up seven to eight percent of your total body mass.

People are more honest when they're tired, which is why most confessions are made during late-night conversations.

At a particular temperature and pressure, frozen liquid can start to boil, and boiling liquid will freeze. This phenomenon is called a "triple point" for water; it's a bit more than 32 degrees Fahrenheit and 611 Pascal's of pressure.

Your body loses from 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every hour. Within a day, you shed almost a million skin cells.

A big oak tree can drink 100 gallons of water per day, and a giant sequoia usually consumes 5 gallons in one day.

Horses use facial expressions to communicate their feelings. These expressions are rather similar to those people make. For example, horses raise inner eyebrows to show sadness, fear, and surprise. They also pull back lip corners in submission or greeting—probably where the expression "hey, why the long face" comes from.

Marge Simpson's hairstyle is super tall. Not without reason, she uses it to hide her rabbit ears—or at least, it was supposed to be this way. The creators were going to make the big reveal in the last episode of the first season, but then they decided the cartoon had gotten too realistic and left Marge with just an unusual hairstyle.

Placebo sleep is when you make your brain believe you've slept well. If you're convincing enough, it can boost your brain performance.

A Moose's antlers are so sensitive they can feel a fly landing on them.

The human brain is shrinking over the last 10,000 years. Its mass has become one tennis ball smaller, but luckily, it hasn't influenced how smart people are.

An adult's body consists of 7 billion billion billion atoms. 65% of them are hydrogen atoms, 24% oxygen, and 10% carbon. The remaining 1% is other elements like copper, zirconium, lead, and so on.

Grizzly bears have such a strong bite that they can crush a bowling ball. That's why you almost never see grizzly bears bowling!

When bamboo species hold the world record for being the fastest-growing plant on Earth, they grow 35 inches per day.

Scientists discovered 14 new species of dancing frogs in 2014, raising the total number to 24. Maybe they could do a revival of A Chorus Line!

The largest city in the world is Tokyo. It has a population of 38 and a half million people. That's four and a half times more than the population of Switzerland and more than twice bigger than the population of the Netherlands.

Your ear lobes become longer as you age because of gravity. It causes them to stretch, sag, and look as if they're growing.

Trained pigeons can distinguish between Pablo Picasso's and Claude Monet's paintings. And if they sit on a stool while they paint—well, you can kind of guess their nicknames.

Bubbles can help you keep the water in your bath warmer for longer. They serve as a kind of insulation and reduce heat loss.

Some penguins propose to females by giving them a perfect, in their opinion, pebble.

Foreign accent syndrome is a real, although extremely rare, condition. It can be caused by a brain injury. People who have this condition start speaking in their native language with a foreign accent.

Archaeologists have discovered some evidence that proves there were takeout restaurants in Pompeii. If you couldn't escape the volcano's eruption in time, then you were eating in!

When you try to remember something in the past, you don't recall the original event. You actually remember the last time you thought of it.

The ship rat, also known as Mouse deer, is a tiny animal that looks like a miniature deer with fangs.

When you sleep, your brain gets cleaned. Special fluid flushes through it and washes away dangerous toxins and harmful proteins that have built up there during the day.

Saturn could float in water because the planet is a gas giant and is less dense than water.

Your brain accounts for 2% of your body weight, and at the same time, it uses up to 20% of all the oxygen and calories your body consumes.

Because of warmer weather, more turtles are born female than male.

Chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the dog world relative to their body size. Of course, the ampersand symbol was formed from two letters, E and T. "Et" is the Latin word for "and."

Spider silk is five times

as strong as steel of the same weight.

Researchers claim that a spider silk rope 2 inches thick could stop a flying Boeing 747.

Your finger can feel objects as tiny as your hair's width. In other words, if your finger were the size of our planet, you'd be able to tell the difference between cars and houses.

Up to 85% of all the oxygen on Earth is produced in the world's oceans by tiny creatures called phytoplankton. They are so small that it's hard to see them without a microscope. Living near the surface, they convert sunlight into energy. The byproduct of this process is oxygen.

One person in 10,000 has a condition called situs inversus. That's when an internal organ is reversed or mirrored from its usual position. In most cases, it's a complete right-to-left reversal of all abdominal organs.

The tardigrade, also known as the water bear, is a microscopic creature that's famous for its survival skills. It can live through extreme temperatures from 300 to minus 450 degrees Fahrenheit and pressures that are six times stronger than at the ocean floor. The creature can also survive in a complete vacuum. Tardigrades sometimes spend almost 10 years without food.

If a guinea pig, especially a baby, gets excited, it starts pop corning. It means that the animal begins to hop up in the air, which looks like a kernel of popcorn in a microwave.

When you lose weight, your fat cells don't just disappear into thin air. They also slim down and become smaller. It works the other way around, too. When you gain weight, your fat cells grow in size as well.

There are more than 24 time zones in the world. Many time zones have just a 30 to 45-minute difference from their neighbors. Oddly enough, the number of genes a species has doesn't necessarily correlate with its complexity.

Giraffes' necks are usually around 6 feet in length, but they have the same number of neck bones as humans. This suggests that the number of genes may have nothing to do with the complexity of an organism.

A giraffe's neck is usually around 6 feet in length, but it has the same number of neck bones as humans.

When you learn something new, your brain changes its structure. New connections between neurons appear, helping you link information faster.

The feeling that it's not the first time you've experienced some event in real life is called déjà vu. If you feel that you've already experienced something in a dream, it's called déja rêvé.

The slow loris, a small creature that looks like a monkey, is the only venomous primate known to people. These animals have toxin-producing glands under their inner arms and bite enemies.

Tim Storms, an American singer and composer, got into the Guinness World Records twice for the widest vocal range and for the lowest note produced by a human. This note was so low that only elephants could hear it.

People have way fewer genes than tomatoes and about the same number as worms.

The size of props, like dollar bills used in movies, has to be either 75% smaller or 150% bigger than the actual bill size. The image must be printed on just one side, and only one color of ink can be used.

Your hair contains a tiny amount of gold. There are up to 14 elements in each strand of your hair, including this precious metal.

The world's longest mountain range on Earth is underwater. The mid-Atlantic ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean is around 26,000 miles long.

Squirrels plant millions of trees every year after they forget where they've hidden their acorns and nuts.

Your tongue has its own unique print, just like your fingers. It's also equipped with 10,000 taste buds that get replaced every two weeks or so.

NASA has managed to translate radio waves created by planets' atmospheres into audible sounds. That's how astronomers have found out that Neptune sounds like ocean waves, Jupiter like being underwater, and Saturn resembles background music from a horror movie.

When you cough, the air is forced out of your lungs along with thousands of tiny saliva droplets. A single cough expels more than 3000 droplets that fly out of your mouth at a speed of 50 miles per hour. So, please cover your mouth!

Hearing is your fastest sense; your brain needs just 0.05 seconds to recognize a sound, which is ten times faster than you blink.

Ravens can learn to talk better than parrots. They also imitate other sounds and noises, including animal calls or car engines.

Some rainbows appear at night. It's a rather rare phenomenon called a moonbow. A moonbow is produced by moonlight rather than direct sunlight, which is why it appears white.

Wearing orange for a job interview is a bad idea. 25% of hiring managers associate this color with a lack of professionalism. They prefer candidates dressed in blue.

Not getting lost in Central Park in New York: Pay attention to lamp posts; each of them has a set of four numbers. The first two inform you about the nearest street, and the remaining two show whether you're closer to the park's west or east side. Odd numbers are for the west, and even numbers signal the east.

Scientists analyzed some fossils and figured out that dinosaurs used to quack like modern ducks or make sounds similar to pigeons or ostriches.

Your stomach and esophagus are covered with nerve cells. There are almost 100 million of them. That's more than there are in a cat's entire head. Scientists call these cells the "second brain" because they determine your mood and emotions.

Most animals stay away from power lines because they give off flashes of ultraviolet light. Around 35 animal species are sensitive to UV radiation. Talking about all the mammals in the world, only humans and apes fail to see ultraviolet rays.

The Marmite company, which produces spreads made from yeast extract, created special travel-sized jars. It happened because Marmite became one of the most confiscated things when people were leaving the UK through airports. Before trees overtook the land some 360 million years ago, our planet was covered with huge mushrooms. They grew 24 feet tall and several feet wide.

When you fidget, you burn calories. If you spend all day fidgeting, you can burn as much as 350 calories. So get used to tapping your fingers and bouncing your leg to stay fed!

In the past, men's dress shirt collars were detachable and helped people save money on laundry costs.

An ancient Egyptian necklace dating back 5,000 years was made from iron meteorites. They arrived from space and were turned into the world's oldest iron artifact.

Elephants can move pretty fast, but they can't jump. Not only because it's hard to do when you weigh five tons or more, but also because elephants have relatively weak lower leg muscles and rather inflexible ankles.

There are more than 60,000 tree species that science knows about on our planet. More than half of them exist only in one country.

Starfish can regenerate a lost limb, and a limb can regenerate the entire starfish as well.

The size of props, like dollar bills used in movies, has to be either 75% smaller or 150% bigger than the actual bill size. The image must be printed on just one side, and only one color of ink can