Amazing Facts

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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise

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The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements

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The average person shares their birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world

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The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle

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The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors

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There are about 6,800 languages in the world

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The sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

The sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years.

No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.

For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.

It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.

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The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.

From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.

Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

Your brain is 80% water.

Your brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day.

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The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.

Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.

Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!