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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
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