"Brazil is so big that the northernmost point in Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost point in Brazil."
"Bats help pollinate the agave plant. So if you like tequila, give props to the bats"
"Pocahontas and William Shakespeare died less than a year apart and within 150 miles of each other."
"Sharks are older than both trees and the rings of Saturn."
"“Häagen-Dazs” has no meaning in any language, it was meant to sound “European”. It was started by Reuben Mattus, a Polish immigrant to New York who sold fruit ice and ice cream from a horse-drawn cart."
"80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII."
"Trees existed for a while before there was bacteria to break down trees, so most of the earth was just a pile of dead trees for awhile"
"A kind of moth is found in Madagascar that almost entirely subsists on the tears of sleeping birds."
"The moon is roughly 400x smaller than the sun, but also coincidentally about 400x closer to us than the sun. This makes them appear as though they are the same size"
"The founders of Adidas and Puma were brothers with a sibling rivalry."
"There were already fossilized dinosaur bones while dinosaurs were still alive."
"The timespan between the use of copper swords and then steel swords is longer then the timespan between the use of steel swords and the nuclear bomb."
"Salamanders are commonly associated with being summoned by fire in folklore. This is because they like to hide in decaying wood. And when people would burn the wood the salamander wouldn’t notice right away until it was fully engulfed in flames and then come out of the wood and crawl out from the coals."
"2/3 of Canada’s population lives south of Seattle."
"The population of earth would fit inside Texas at the same density as NYC."
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