1. The sun makes up more than 99% of the mass of the solar system.

2. Humans can distinguish between at least a trillion smells.

3. Almost every element in your body was made in an exploding star.

4. An asteroid in our solar system has rings, like Saturn.

5. There might be another Earth-sized planet in the outer solar system.

6. A narwhal's tusk is filled with nerves.

7. Each of a tarsier's eyeballs is as big as its brain.

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8. If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, chances are that exact order has never
been seen before in the whole history of the universe.

9. Adults have fewer bones than a baby.

10. Humans can't breathe and swallow at the same time.

11. There are about 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a human

body.

12. There are about 86 billion neurons in an average human brain.

13. Every atom in your body is billions of years old.

14. There's a type of mollusc called a chiton that can make its own magnetic
teeth.

15. Bees sense a flower's electric field and use it to find pollen.

16. Beaked whales can hold their breath for over two hours.
17. Mantis shrimp can punch at 80 kilometres per hour.

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18. The universe might be a hologram.

19. There's a gas cloud in the constellation of Aquila that contains enough
alcohol to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

20. Looking at stars is basically looking into the past, because of how long it
takes the light from them to reach us.

21. Dung beetles can use the Milky Way to navigate.

22. The Milky Way has four spiral arms, not two.

23. If you cry in space the tears just stick to your face.

24. During the ice age, 32,000 years ago, a squirrel buried a seed. Now the seed
has been used to grow a flower.

25. We've found over a thousand planets outside our solar system just in the last
20 years.

26. There's a planet where it rains glass, sideways.

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27. The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold.

28. If the oceans dried out, the salt left over would cover the continents to a
depth of 5 feet.

29. There are more cells of bacteria in your body than there are human cells.

30. There's a species of jellyfish that is essentially immortal.

31. Ladybirds can fly at speeds up to 60 kph.

32. There's a 3.5-inch aluminium sculpture on the moon.

33. Scientists have found a tiny crystal of zircon that is 4.4 billion years old.

34. You can listen to what interstellar space sounds like.

35. It takes a photon, on average, 170,000 years to travel from the core of the
sun to the surface.

36. Then it takes just 8 minutes from the sun's surface to your eyes.
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37. A Mars-sized object crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago, chipping off a
chunk of rock that became the moon, and making the Earth's axis tilt slightly.

38. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321.

39. Our first ancestor to walk on land was a four-legged fish called Tiktaalik.

40. Teenage brains really are different to adult ones.

41. There are roughly 2 pints of water in every cubic foot of soil on Mars.

42. You can use a blue whale's wax earplug to work out its life history.

43. There's a mammal in Australia that has sex until it disintegrates.

44. An orgasm can clear your sinuses.

45. There's a mantis that can camouflage itself to look exactly like an orchid.
46. There's an insect that has gears.

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47. Life expectancy has doubled over the last 150 years.

48. Atoms are mostly empty space.

49. If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the
humans on Earth, the remaining mass could fit inside a sugar cube.

50. In the history of the Earth, we're closer to Tyrannosaurus rex than T. rex is to
stegosaurus.

51. Birds are dinosaurs.

25. “Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o,

or u.
24. Excluding derivatives, there are only two words in English that end -shion
and (though many words end in this sound). These are cushion and fashion.
23. “THEREIN” is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled
using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in,
therein, and herein.
22. There is only one common word in English that has five vowels in a row:
queueing.
21. Soupspoons is the longest word that consists entirely of letters from the
second half of alphabet.
20. “Almost” is the longest commonly used word in the English language with
all the letters in alphabetical order.
19. The longest uncommon word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the
eight-letter Aegilops (a grass genus).
18. The longest common single-word palindromes are deified, racecar,
repaper, reviver, and rotator.
17. “One thousand” contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to
nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
16. “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue
twister in English.
15. Cwm (pronounced “koom”, defined as a steep-walled hollow on a hillside)
is a rare case of a word used in English in which w is the nucleus vowel, as is
crwth (pronounced “krooth”, a type of stringed instrument). Despite their
origins in Welsh, they are accepted English words.
14. “Asthma” and “isthmi” are the only six-letter words that begin and end with
a vowel and have no other vowels between.
13. The nine-word sequence I, in, sin, sing, sting, string, staring, starting (or
starling), startling can be formed by successively adding one letter to the
previous word.
12. “Underground” and “underfund” are the only words in the English
language that begin and end with the letters “und.”
11. “Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed with only the left
hand.
10. Antidisestablishmentarianism listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, was
considered the longest English word for quite a long time, but today the
medical term pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is usually
considered to have the title, despite the fact that it was coined to provide an
answer to the question ‘What is the longest English word?’.
9. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”.
8. There are many words that feature all five regular vowels in alphabetical
order, the commonest being abstemious, adventitious, facetious.
7. The superlatively long word honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) alternates
consonants and vowels.
6. “Fickleheaded” and “fiddledeedee” are the longest words consisting only of
letters in the first half of the alphabet.
5. The two longest words with only one of the six vowels including y are the
15-letter defenselessness and respectlessness.
4. “Forty” is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. “One”
is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.
3. Bookkeeper is the only word that has three consecutive doubled letters.
2. Despite the assertions of a well-known puzzle, modern English does not
have three common words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are the only
ones.
1. “Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence
contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through
the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.