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Fact 1: Going to work is more dangerous than going to war.

Statistically, you are three times more likely to die travelling to or from work than you are if you were to be shipped out to a war these days.

Fact 2: Russia has more surface area than Pluto.

With 6,601,668 square miles of land mass, Russia beats Pluto’s 6,427,805 square miles of surface area, and dwarfs the world’s second biggest country, Canada, which has a land mass of 3,855,103 square miles.

Fact 3: The British Queen’s handbag is a body language communication device.

It is used by her to relay secret and silent messages to her staff.

For example, if she is finished speaking to a guest she will move it from one arm to another and her aides will politely end the conversation, or if she wants to abruptly end a conversation she will put her bag on the ground.

Fact 4: Armadillos have shells so hard they can deflect a bullet.

One poor Texan man learned this the hard way when he shot at an armadillo only to have the bullet ricochet off the indestructible beast, and back at him into his jaw! The man was airlifted to hospital. Amazingly, the armadillo just walked off unscathed.

Fact 5: The Eiffel Tower “grows” in the summer.

Due to the heat expansion of the tower’s iron in the summer sun, the Eiffel Tower’s height can grow by up to 6 inches!

Fact 6: Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest!

Bees can fly at levels up to 29,525 feet above sea level – higher than the planet’s tallest Mountain!

Fact 7: The letter ‘E’ is the most common letter in the English language.

It appears in roughly 11% of all words used in the English language, and is used 12 times in this very sentence alone!

Fact 8: A man survived being hit by a car and thrown 118 feet.

Off-duty paramedic Matthew McKnight was hit by a car travelling 70 miles per hour and was catapulted 118 feet!

He suffered some fairly serious injuries but amazingly managed to recover.

He now holds the Guinness World Record for furthest distance thrown by a car!

Fact 9: Belgium once tried using cats to deliver mail.

In the 1870s, the town of Liège came up with the idea of employing felines as their new mail couriers.

The mail was loaded into waterproof bags that were tied around the kitties’ little collars and they were sent to their destination.

However, this was quickly dropped as the cats proved slower and more unreliable than human post couriers.

Fact 10: An ant can’t die from falling.

Because of their incredibly small weight and rock-hard exoskeleton, an ant’s terminal velocity isn’t enough to harm it upon impact.

Simply put, they could survive being dropped from heights like the Empire State Building and walk away unscathed.

Fact 11: Snakes can burp fire.

For this to happen, a decomposing animal a snake has eaten has to burst whilst being digested, releasing methane and hydrogen into the snake’s stomach.

All that’s needed for the snake to fire up is a spark

Fact 12: 40 million years ago penguins were 6 feet tall.

This was discovered from bones found at Seymour Island dating back to 37 – 40 million years ago.

These gigantic penguins would have weighed up to 250 pounds!

Fact 13: Woodpeckers eat brains when they get too hungry.

Nope, not zombie woodpeckers, just normal woodpeckers.

If they’ve gone too long without food, they will pin down other birds and peck at the back of their heads until they crack through their skulls and then eat their brains. Freaky!

Fact 14: You’re more likely to get bitten by a person than a shark.

Especially in New York City, where the annual number of people-on-people bites is 10 times higher than the annual number of worldwide shark bites!

Fact 15: On statues, a horse’s legs tell you how the statue figure died.

If a horse has both its front legs in the air, then the person died in battle.

If the horse has one of its front legs in the air, they died of wounds received from a battle.

And if the horse has both its front legs on the ground then the person died of natural causes.

Fact 16: Cheetahs love Calvin Klein.

Wildlife crews trying to film these skittish big cats tried testing a range of scents of their cameras and equipment in order to draw cheetahs in closer for filming.

Of all the scents they tried, Calvin Klein’s “Obsession for Men” proved to be the one the cheetahs loved the most.

Fact 16: The US has more millionaires than Sweden has people.

There are over 10 million millionaires in the US!

Fact 17: 10 gallons of carrot juice will kill a person. That is because the Vitamin A content of that much juice is high enough to make your brain swell and kill you, along with a load of nasty other symptoms!

Fact 18: A man once tripped over his beard during a fire evacuation and died. Then-Mayor of Braunau am Inn back in 1567, Hans Steininger, was the proud owner of the world’s longest beard (at the time) with a four-foot hairy wonder. When he was caught up in a fire evacuation drill. On his way out of the flaming building, Hans’s beard got tangled around his feet and caused him to trip and fall down a flight of stairs, breaking his neck and killing him.

Fact 19: For their first month of living, babies only see in black & white. They also only see silhouettes and are unable to focus on items just after their birth.

Fact 20: NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second! This means on NASA’s internet you could download a high-quality 1080p movie in mere milliseconds! Normal households internet is roughly 25 MB per second.

Fact 21: The longest wedding veil was longer than 63 football fields.

If you thought Meghan Markle's wedding veil was long, get this: there's a woman in Cyprus who set the Guinness World Record for the longest wedding veil. How long was it, you ask? Nearly 23,000 feet, which is the same length as about 63.5 football fields.

Fact 22: You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than 2 miles away. The world's largest animal's heart weighs about 400 pounds — approximately the size of a small piano.

Fact 23: A $1 bill costs 5 cents to make.

According to the Federal Reserve, each buck lasts about six years, and there's about $1.79 trillion of U.S. currency in circulation right now.

Fact 24:

If Facebook was a country, it would have 1 billion more people than China. At 2.45 billion monthly users, Facebook overshadows China's (1.4 billion) and India's (1.3 billion) populations. Even Instagram has three times as many people as the U.S. now.

Fact 25: Superman didn't always fly.

The original comic book Superman could leap tall buildings in a single bound. But then he had to come right back down to Earth—because he didn't fly. It wasn't until the 1940s, when animators for a new animated series decided it would be too difficult to routinely draw him bending his knees, that it was decided that Superman could take off into the air. Readers got to see smooth animation, and a superhero gained a new power.

Fact 26: Space smells like seared steak.

When you see footage of astronauts floating peacefully in space, do you ever wonder, What do space smells like? Well, according to some former astronauts, space does have a distinct odor that hangs around post-spacewalk. They've described it as "hot metal" or "searing steak."

Fact 27: Bees sometimes sting other bees.

Bees are notorious for their stings, but humans aren't the only ones who experience this pain in the neck (or the arm, or the leg…).

Fact 28: Kids ask 300 questions a day. A 2013 U.K. study from online retailer Littlewoods.com observed young children and recorded the questions they asked the adults around them. The children tended to turn to their mothers for answers, and these moms could end up answering an average of nearly 300 questions per day, or one question every two-and-a-half minutes, the study found. The moms reported that the hardest questions they were asked included "Why is water wet?" and "What are shadows made of?"

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