Fun facts!

[Kim Kan]

Please share some fun facts here! Whether they are interesting, or straight up weird, feel free to share any cool facts.

[Kim Kan]

Did you know that cashews grow on apples?
Did you know that mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants?
Did you know trees actually grow out of the air, not out of the ground?
Did you know there is enough water in lake superior to cover north America in one foot of water?
Did you know that atoms are 99.9 percent empty space making everything mostly empty space?
Did you know that every ten years your entire body has replaced itself because all cells have been replaced, meaning you have no more in common with your previous self?
Did you know there are more bacterial cells in your body than actual body cells?
Did you know that dragon flies can't walk?
Did you know that in a population of clownfish if the female dies then the most dominant male becomes a female?
Did you know the cleopatra lived closer to the first moon landing than the construction of the pyramids?

[Kim Kan]

Did you know that most alcoholic beverages contain thirteen minerals necessary to sustain human life?
Did you know one percent of the world's population is drunk at any given moment?
Did you know that the average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime?
Did you know the apple iPhone is the second best selling product of all time, after the rubix cube?
Did you know before the eraser was created, bread was used to remove pencil marks?
Did you know that peanut butter put under extremely high pressure can be turned into diamonds?
Did you know that if you yell for 8 years, 7 months, and six days, that should produce enough sound energy to heat your coffee up.
Did you know a physicist studying atoms is really atoms trying to understand themselves?
Did you know the brain actually named itself? Lol

[Kim Kan]

Did you know that more people have died in Halo than have ever died in real life?

[Chang Lee Jun]

Pooh I like this! I'm going to share Harry Potter fan facts lol

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• J.K. Rowling has stated that "Lord Voldemort" is actually pronounced without the "t"
  
• In the Spanish translation of the Harry Potter books, Neville's frog, Trevor, has been translated as a turtle instead of a frog.
  
• In the Harry Potter movies, 6 actors have played Voldemort.
  
• The least financially successful HP movie made $90 million more than the most successful
  
• Twilight movie.
  
• Michael Jackson (a Harry Potter fan) proposed musical version of HP to J.K. Rowling but was turned down.
  
• J.k. Rowling's the first person to become a billionaire by writing books.
  
• When J.K. Rowling took an online House quiz, it sorted her into Hufflepuff.
  
• Ron Weasley's patronus, Jack Russell terrier, which are know for chasing otters. Hermione'a patronus is an otter.
  
• Hogwarts does not accept foreigners but serves only Britain and Ireland.
  
• Hogwarts currently has about 1000 students in it.
  
• Voldemort was born on December 31st
  
• Dumbledore is approximatly 150 years old and McGonngall is about 70.
  
• "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi" means on the Mirror of Erised, "I show not your face but your hearts desire." (Read it backwards to see!!)
  
• Crookshanks is no ordinary cat, as he is half-kneazle.
  
• The secret code Arthur Weasley must dial into a telephone keypad to access the Ministry of Magic is 62442. The letters underneath those numbers on a standard phone spell out the word MAGIC.
  
• Dean Thomas's father was killed by Death Eaters when he refused to join them. Neither
• Dean nor his mother know.
  
• A picture of Gandalf the Grey can be seen in the collection of great wizards in Professor
• Dumbledore's study in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
  
• Harry lost the ability to speak Parseltongue when his scar Horcrux was destroyed.

I think...that's enough for now

[Kim Kan]

Super cool!

[Kim Kan]

Did you know the adult human brain weighs about three pounds?
Did you know the world record for time without sleep is 264 hours (eleven days) by Randy Gardner in 1965?
Did you know the octopus does not have a blind spot?
Did you know the eyes of the chameleon can move independently? Therefore it can see in two different directions at the same time.
Did you know that scorpions can have as many as 12 eyes?

[Kim Kan]

Well over 1,000,000 books are published worldwide every year.
There are 240,000,000 TVs in the US. 2,000,000 are in bathrooms.
Newspaper circulation is down 7 million over the last 25 years.
95 percent of all songs downloaded in 2008 weren't paid for.
The average American teen sends 2,272 text messages a month.
Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every second.
90 percent of the 200 billion emails sent every day are spam.
The mobile device will be the world's primary connection tool to the internet in 2020

[Kim Kan]

If you are 1 in a million in China..... there are 1,300 people just like you! lol
China will soon become the number one English speaking country in the world.
The 25 percent of India's population with the highest IQ's is greater than the total population of the United States. Translation: India has more honors kids than America has kids.
The top 10 in demand jobs in 2012 did not exist in 2004.
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today's learner will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38.
1 in 4 workers have been with their current employer for less than a year.
1 in 2 has been there less than five years.
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
There are 845 million monthly active users of Facebook.
If facebook were a country it would be the third largest behind China and India.
Twitter has about 600 tweets per second.
There are 31 billion searches on google every month.
Today, the number of text messages sent everyday exceeds the total population of the planet.
There are about 540,000 words in the English language
It is estimated that a week's worth of the New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th century.
For students starting a 4 year technical degree, half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.