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  • most lipstick contains fish scales
  • a jiffy is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second
  • the pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is a bubble of gas burning
  • the letter j isn't on the periodic table
  • the backwards question mark (⸮) is used to signify irony or sarcasm
  • the smell of rain derives from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone
  • a bolt of lightning is 5x hotter than the surface of the sun
  • tsundoku is a japanese term for the habit of buying too many books, letting them pile up, and never reading them
  • if you add the numbers up on a roulette wheel, the total is 666
  • there are 10x more stars than there are grains of sand
  • canada eats more macaroni & cheese than any other nation
  • listening to music is one of the few activities that utilizes the entire brain
  • cold showers have more health benefits than warm/hot showers (ex: improving circulation, stimulating weight loss, easing depression)
  • an "earworm" is a song that you cannot get out of your head
  • koalas have fingerprints that are almost identical to humans
  • one inch of rain roughly equals thirteen inches of snow
  • baby elephants suck on their trunks for comfort
  • flamingos are naturally white, but their diet of algae and brine shrimp turn them pink
jan 9 2020 ∞
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