– Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
– A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
– The Spanish national anthem has no words.
– When we breath through our nose, we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other one – and this changes every 15 minutes.
– Written language was invented independently by the Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese, and Mayans.
– 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.
– In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew for the first time. Man landed on the Moon in 1969.
– Basically anything that melts can be made into glass. You just have to cool off a molten material before its molecules have time to realign into what they were before being melted.
– Water bears, or Tardigrades, are typically 0.5 mm in length and can survive virtually anything. Even the vacuum of space.
– The state sport of Maryland is jousting.
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