1) When a massive power outage struck Southern California in the 1990's, mass panic began and people called 911 as they were seeing weird clouds in the sky, which was actually The Milky way seen without all the light pollution!
2) There is an Austrailian shrub plant called the "Suicide Plant". This plant is notoriously famous for the effect it has on people after they touch it which is suicide. Its leaf has a compound that causes an agonizing sting that can last upto 5 years after touching it!
3) Butt is a medival unit of measurement for wine! A butt load is equavalent to 129 Gallons!
4) Arsol, Bastardane, Crapinon, Constipatic Acid, Uranate, BARF, catP, Vomitoxin, Magic Acid, Moronic Acid, Titanic acid, Diabolic Acid, Fartox and many more( Click Here For more names) are all real chemical compound names!
5) Current CEO of Youtube Susan Wojcicki, was the woman who rented out her garage in 1998 for Larry Paige and Sergey Brin while they were creating Google!
6)Your body Burns more calories sleeping than doing nothing while awake!
7)Your Eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days!
8) Humpback whales often allow dolphins for a ride on their backs for the fun of it!
9) First Ever Storage of Google was Made of Lego because they needed about 40 GB storage for the working of Search Engine Algorithm but the biggest Hard Disk was of 4GB in size so they had to assemble 10 hard Drives to make one of 40 GB.
10) The First Tweet of Google was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” Which meant I’m Feeling Lucky in Binary.
11) Due to tidal friction from the sun and moon, the solar day is lengthening by 1.7 milliseconds each century as the Earth’s rotation slows down.
12) In 140 million years, a day on Earth is expected to last 25 hours.
13) From 2005 to 2007, researchers have found that more trees in the neighbourhood= Less crimes!
14) Handshakes were originally meant for check whether the person you were meeting was carrying a concealed weapon!
15) The concept of Rap Battles has existed since the 5th Centuary! Poets would often engage in "Flyting", a spoke word or event where the poets would insult each other!
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