- If there is a statue of a man on a horse and the horse has both of its front feet in the air, then the man died in a battle. - Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf. - Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing. - In June 2006, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) added ‘Google’ as a verb. - Sea Otters tend to have a ‘favorite’ rock, which they store and carry with them in a pouch usually under their left arm. - Lake Baikal is located in the south of Eastern Siberia, in the Buryat Autonomous Republic and the Region of Irkutsk, Russia. This lake is the deepest lake in the world. Its average depth is 730 m. And it’s maximum depth in the middle is 1,620 m. It is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20 % of the world’s unfrozen surface fresh water. It is also among the clearest of all lakes, and thought to be the world’s oldest lake at 25 million years! - ‘Dreamt’ is the only English word that ends in the letters ‘mt’. - ‘Pistanthrophobia’ is the fear of trusting people due to negative past experiences. - There are over 200 dead frozen bodies on Mount Everest. Many of which you must pass to get to the summit and some are used as markers. - Blue whales are so big that a human being can swim through their largest veins and arteries. - Pluto will complete its first full orbit since its discovery on Monday, March 23rd 2178. - According to an international study of male DNA, nearly 0.5% of men worldwide, carry Genghis Khan’s DNA. - Putting Vodka on one’s face reduces the chances of acne breakouts by tightening the skin’s pores. - Love actually has nothing to do with one’s heart. It’s all chemical reactions inside brain. - If one places 2 straws in one’s mouth, one inside of a drink and the other on the outside – one won’t be able to drink through either of them. - Yawning doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re tired, studies suggest that we yawn when our body & brain need more oxygen. - Researchers have found that meditation can reduce anxiety by as much as 39%!
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