Think you know enough about the world around? Maybe. Â And can you pass any quiz? Can’t say. Well well well, here are some incredible facts about the world.
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1 The glass of water you're drinking contains one molecule of water that was once drunk by dinosaur
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2 Watching TV or reading in dark doesn't effect your eyesight
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3 There is a distinctive smell in space that smells like gunpower, barbecue and diesel fumes.
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4 Goats have rectangular pupils
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5 Some turtles can breath just out of their butts
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6 It takes a photon, on average, 200,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, then just a little over 8 minutes from the sun’s surface to your eyeball.
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7 The species of jellyfish 'Turritopsis dohrnii' is immortal
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8 8. The moon is moving away from the earth at a tiny, although measurable, rate every year. 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth about 35 feet from the planet’s surface.
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9 Lightning strikes Earth 100 times every second
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10 If you sneeze too hard you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force they can pop out.
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11 Rats' reproductive system is so fast that 2 rats can be the ancestors of a million of rats just in 18 months
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12 3 hurricane can produce more energy than the whole world's nuclear power just in 10 minutes
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13 A banana is a berry but strawberry isn't
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14 Almost all the diamond in the world is 3 billion years old
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15 Some cats are allergic to humans
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16 One dialect of a world language dies every 14 days.
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17 Frowning burns calories
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18 Ostrich eyes are bigger than it's brain
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19 Nepal is the only country with a flag that isn’t rectangular or square shaped.
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20 Mount Everest grows roughly 4 millimeters every year
