The scientific term for brain freeze is “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia”.
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A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread
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The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green
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Precious metals on earth, such as gold and platinum, may have originated in the stars. Scientists confirmed this after detecting a titanic collision of two super-dense neutron stars 130 million light years from Earth.
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Chalk is made from trillions of microscopic plankton fossils
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In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on Earth Over the coming hundreds of millions of years, the Sun will continue to get progressively brighter and hotter. Temperatures will be high enough to evaporate our oceans. Making life impossible on Earth.
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If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space they will permanently bond.
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A teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons.
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There are extraterrestrial dust particles on your rooftop. They are called micrometeorites and are about 400 microns in size. More than 100 billion micrometeorites are believed to fall to Earth each year.
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The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.
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The Kepler-90 star system has as many planets as our own solar system, making us tied for the most planets revolving around a single star known. Combining data from the Kepler Space Telescope with Google’s AI system, Nasa uncovered an 8th planet named Kepler 90i
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There's a migraine medication (Sumatriptan) that can actually cause some people's blood to turn dark green when taken in large does. It causes something called sulfhaemoglobinaemia which basically means there's sulfur in your hemoglobin.
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Six elements account for 99 percent of the mass of the human body: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The human body contains enough carbon for 9,000 pencils.
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Polar bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras. Thermal cameras detect the heat lost by a subject as infrared, but polar bears are experts at conserving heat. The bears keep warm due to a thick layer of blubber under the skin.