Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
In order to protect themselves from poachers, African Elephants have been evolving without tusks, which unfortunately also hurts their species.
At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse.
It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
A single strand of Spaghetti is called a “Spaghetto”.
The Spanish national anthem has no words.
In Svalbard, a remote Norwegian island, it is illegal to die.
Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.(Would you like to eat 🤣)
One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
The only letter that doesn’t appear on the periodic table is J.
The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.
The unique smell of rain actually comes from plant oils, bacteria, and ozone.
Saint Lucia is the only country in the world named after a woman.
There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮
Until 2016, the “Happy Birthday” song was not for public use. Meaning, prior to 2016, the song was copyrighted and you had to pay a license to use it.
Although GPS is free for the world to use, it costs $2 million per day to operate. The money comes from American tax revenue.
Dead people can get goose bumps.
Nowadays, millionaires with just $1 million isn’t considered wealthy anymore by most Americans. Now, the typical American sees at least $2.4 million as wealthy.
