Trivia & Amazing Facts
When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
A two-bit moon is in the first quarter.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
October 10 is National Metric Day.
The permanent teeth that erupt to replace their primary predecessors (baby teeth) are called succedaneous teeth.
Assuming Rudolph was in front, there are 40320 ways to arrange the other eight reindeer.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent. Source: Denianne Bland
The two most common surgeries are biopsies and cesarean sections.
National Pi Day is March 14, at 1:59. (3/14 1:59)
The 772-778 digits of pi are 9999998, the greatest sum of 7 consequtive digits in the first 1,000,000 or so digits.
If you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word in the sentence: "May I have a large container of coffee?" If you get the coffee and are polite and say "Thank you," you get two more decimal places. [3.141592653...]
Plaster of Paris is naturally fire retardant. At about 600 degrees Farenheit the chemical water that is stored in it is released. This is also why walls are often "sweaty" after a fire.
Most of the Vitamin C in fruits is in the pith (skin).
Eggplant is a member of the thistle family.
Pecans are the only food that astranauts do not have to treat and dehydrate when flying in space.
There are 2,598,960 five-card hands possible in a 52-card deck of cards.
The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.
The name of the asteroid that was believed to have killed the dinosaurs was named Chixalub. (Pronounced Sheesh-uh-loob)
The record for most snowfall in a day, 78 inches, was made on February 7, 1916 in Alaska. Source: Bat Garg
2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5.
1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are the values of the numbers of factors they have.
The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days. Source: Andre Boutin- Maloney
Jupiter's core is in fact made of a non-metal, but due to the immense pressure inside Jupiter the core has become a metal. This metal is hydrogen. Source: Christopher David Martin
Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in our solar system. All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters. Source: Pits
142857 is a cyclic number, the numbers of which always appear in the same order but rotated around when multipled by any number from 1 to 6. 142857 * 2 = 285714 142857 * 3 = 428571 142857 * 4 = 571428 142857 * 5 = 714285 142857 * 6 = 857142 Source: Dave Pigott
A shank is the part of the sole between the heel and the ball of the foot. Also, a shank refers to a steel, plastic or wood piece inserted in the arch of a shoe.
The talus is the second largest bone in the foot.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Source: David Howard
The billionth digit of pi is 9. Source: Ben Peoples
If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision (but all your depth perception). Source: "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader"
Life on Earth probably developed in an oxygen-free atmosphere. Even today, there are microorganisms that can live only in the absence of oxygen. Source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts"
Scientists define deserts as areas which have less than 250mm (10in) of rain a year. They include not only the hot deserts, but also cold deserts such a Greenland, Antarctica and northern Russia. A third type, known as edaphic desert, is one where, despite an adequate rainfall, the soil is too poor to support plants. Edaphic deserts occur on some volcanic islands, in parts of Iceland and on the Colorado plateau in the USA. Cold deserts cover 16% of the world's surface. Hot and edaphic deserts account for a further 18%; a total of 34%, or just over a third of the world's land. Source: "Reader's Digest Book of Facts"
The driest places on Earth are a series of valleys near Ross Island in Antarctica where, for the past 2 million years at least, no rain has ever fallen. Source: "Reader's Digest Book of Facts"
In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, Hedy Lamarr patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time. It never made her any money. But the concept was taken up by engineers in 1957 and became the basic tool for secure military communications. It was installed on the ships sent to blockage Cuba in 1962, about three years after the patent expired. Source: "Invention & Technology" magazine
You burn more calories sleeping than you do
