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About one million Earths could fit inside the Sun.
The star at the centre of our solar system is so massive that its volume is overwhelmingly larger than that of all…
The first Apple logo featured Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.
Designed by one of the founders, the complex illustration showed the scientist reading, with a poetic quote around…
The first message sent over the internet was just the word "LO".
The original message was supposed to be "LOGIN", but the ARPANET system crashed after the transmission of the first…
The word CAPTCHA is actually a complex acronym.
It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, used to prevent bots from…
The first website in history is still online and can be visited.
Created by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in nineteen ninety-one, the page explained what the World Wide Web was and is…
The barcode was inspired by Morse code drawn in the sand.
The inventors scribbled thin and thick lines on the beach to adapt the dots and dashes of Morse code into a format…
The first YouTube video was recorded at a zoo.
Titled "Me at the zoo", it was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim in two thousand and five, showing him standing in…
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its own brain.
The ostrich has the largest eye of any land animal, giving it excellent vision to detect predators at great distances…
Tigers have striped skin and not just striped fur.
If you shaved a tiger, you would see that the dark stripes are pigmented directly into its skin, and each pattern is…
Sea otters have a pouch in their skin to store their favourite rock.
This small pouch, located under the forearm, is used to store a specific rock that the otter uses as a tool to break…
A woodpecker's tongue wraps around its brain to protect it.
The tongue is extremely long and forks, wrapping around the skull and acting as a seatbelt and shock absorber to…
Butterflies taste food through their feet.
Butterflies have taste receptors on their hind legs, allowing them to land on a plant and immediately feel if it is…
Human beings are taller in the morning than at bedtime.
During the day, gravity compresses the cartilage between the spine's vertebrae. At night, while sleeping…
Babies are born without kneecaps.
Instead of solid bone, babies are born with a cartilage structure that only begins to ossify and turn into the…
The surface area of human lungs is equivalent to a tennis court.
If the millions of pulmonary alveoli were opened and stretched, their total gas exchange surface would cover about…
The human femur is stronger than concrete.
The thigh bone is incredibly dense and structured to support body weight, able to withstand a compressive pressure…
The human body contains enough iron to make a seven-centimetre nail.
Iron is essential for haemoglobin in the blood. If all the iron present in an average adult's body were extracted and…
Sleep deprivation causes the brain to start consuming itself.
Chronic lack of sleep causes glial cells to go into overdrive, starting to devour unnecessary synapses and neural…
Ripe cranberries bounce like rubber balls when dropped on the floor.
Farmers use this physical property to test the ripeness and quality of the fruit. If the cranberry does not bounce…
The English "pound cake" gets its name from the original eighteenth-century recipe.
The original recipe called for exactly one pound, or about four hundred and fifty grams, of each of the four main…
Pringles potato chips are not made from real potato slices.
They are made from a dehydrated dough of potato, corn, and wheat, which is pressed into a metal mould to create the…
There is not a single bridge crossing the Amazon River.
Despite being one of the largest rivers in the world, the extreme width of the river in the rainy season and the…
Point Nemo is the ocean location farthest from any landmass.
Located in the South Pacific, it is so isolated that the closest people to it at any given time are often the…
There is a piece of land in Africa that no country in the world claims.
Bir Tawil is a two thousand square kilometre desert area between Egypt and Sudan. Due to discrepancies in borders…