A rough estimate for the total amount of humans ever born is around 108.2 billion. There are currently around 7.44 billion people alive.
Developing embryos contain other developing embryos, like an assembly like process, one after the other.
The Great Banyan Tree in Kolkata covers 155,000 sq. ft. while the average Walmart is 104,000.
After being released from a Siberian prison, Wojtek fought for Poland in WWII. After the war, he was awarded the rank of Corporal.
White was born January 17, 1922. Sliced bread didn’t become a thing until 1928. So, I guess the phrase should be, “the coolest thing since Betty White.”
Well, not exactly. They grow at the bottom of a fruit known as the cashew apple.
In 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen chopped off ‘Mike the Headless Chicken’s’ dome, but the chicken refused to die for another 18 months.
The pyramids were built in 2,500 BCE, whereas Cleopatra died in 30 BCE, a difference of around 2,400 years. Pizza Hut was founded in 1958, a difference of only 2,000 years.
Their average lifespan is 272 years.
That’s right. The last time the French lopped off someone’s head, was the same year Star Wars: A New Hope came out. This was also the last legal execution in the European union.
Sir Hugh Beaver, managing director of the Guiness Brewery at the time, was looking for the answer to a bar argument, “which is the fastest game big in Europe?” When he discovered how difficult the answer was to find, he created the Guiness Book of World Records to settle trivial arguments.
Though some versions of “calculus” were used as far back as the ancient Egyptians, it wasn’t established until the late 17th century. Harvard was founded in 1636.
Due to its chemical composition, organisms can’t live inside of it. For this reason, it can never spoil.
Long before Super Mario and the NES, Nintendo was a card game company.
The patella starts out as cartilage and then slowly ossifies into bone when kids enter toddler age.
These wicked little shrimp pack quite a punch—equal to that of a .22 round. They’ve been known to break their glass enclosures.
NASA estimated there are 100B-400B stars in the galaxy. According to scientists estimates, there are 3 TRILLION trees on Earth.
These incredibly dense celestial objects have 1.5 times the mass of our sun. A sugar cube worth of neutron star would weight one hundred million tons on Earth.
The Aztec empire began in 1428. Oxford University was founded in 1096.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on the planet. Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis just once, while it only takes 225 Earth days to orbit the sun.
Though it’s significantly smaller, there are actually around 20 million more people in Bangladesh (163M) than Russia (144.3M).
As a non-Newtonian fluid (neither liquid or solid), silly putty has very unusual properties. A 50lb blob of the substance was once dropped from the top of a parking garage. Instead of bouncing, it shattered.
It’s a process called Parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction where embryos grow without fertilization.
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