Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind-Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture And Everything In Between

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Snails have teeth. between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, to be precise. They aren’t like ours, though, so don’t be thinking about snails with ridiculous toothy grins. You’ll find the snail's tiny 'teeth' all over its file-like tongue. The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old. Creme Puff was the oldest cat to ever live.

We only see it that way because the sun’s wavelengths react with the difference in the atmosphere. Gelatin doesn’t break if you tap it because of surface tension. PDF / EPUB File Name: Interesting_Facts_For_Curious_Minds_-_Jordan_Moore.pdf, Interesting_Facts_For_Curious_Minds_-_Jordan_Moore.epub Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints. You can’t blame your crimes on your twin, after all. This is because environmental factors during development in the womb (umbilical cord length, position in the womb, and the rate of finger growth) impact your fingerprint. Lions are skilled hunters and can run up to 50 miles per hour (80 kilometres per hour) in short bursts while chasing prey. Lot of fun. Would be great guest bathroom book as it is interesting and informative that can be “digested” in short increments.Being bored is actually a 'high arousal state' physiologically. This is because when you're bored your heart rate increases.

Male lions can weigh up to 550 pounds (250 kilograms), while females are generally smaller, weighing around 350 pounds (160 kilograms). A cloud weighs around a million tonnes. A cloud typically has a volume of around 1km 3 and a density of around 1.003km per m 3 – that's a density that’s around 0.4 per cent lower than the air surrounding it ( this is how they are able to float).With 63 chapters, this book has a nice mix of science, history, pop culture, and all sorts of stuff in between. Each chapter contains 25 concise yet engaging factoids that are sure to make you think and at times laugh. Know the answers to a variety of questions such as: When did zero become a number? Who was the inventor of Bitcoin? What did the Big Bang sound like? How have sports changed around the world? What’s a malapropism? and many more! In 1514, Copernicus introduced Heliocentrism. Before this, it was believed that the sun orbits around the Earth.

All mammals get goosebumps. When your hair stands on end, tiny muscles contract at each hair's base which distorts the skin to create goosebumps. This process is called piloerection and is present in all mammals. Hair or fur is used to trap an insulating air layer. Football teams wearing red kits play better. The colour of your clothes can affect how you’re perceived by others and change how you feel. A review of football matches in the last 55 years, for example, showed that teams wearing a red kit consistently played better in home matches than teams in any other colour. The biggest butterfly in the world has a 31cm wingspan. It belongs to the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing butterfly, which you can find in the forests of the Oro Province, in the east of Papua New Guinea. Then Interesting Facts For Curious Minds: 1572 Random But Mind Blowing Facts About History, Science, Pop Culture and Everything in Between is the book for you!Mirrors facing each other don't produce infinite reflections. Each reflection will be darker than the last and eventually fade into invisibility. Mirrors absorb a fraction of the energy of the light striking them. The total number of reflections mirrors can produce? A few hundred.