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The Komodo dragon, found in Indonesia, is the largest lizard in the world, growing up to 3 meters (9.8 feet) in length.

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If the sun would disappear, we wouldn't notice it for about 8:20 minutes.
At first we will notice how the light is gone, but then we would be launched away from orbit only then because gravity takes the same amount of time of light to travel in vacuum space

Apparently the human liver can regrow itself after three weeks. Not sure if that's fun but it's something!

Even though the American Civil War ended in 1865, the last living Civil War veteran widow died in XXI century (2003): Gertrude Janeway

This one's a bit cursed

In Finland, there is an old measurement unit called "poronkusema" which can be translated to “reindeer’s piss.” It describes the distance a reindeer can travel without having to stop to pee which is around 7 - 7.5km. Also, reindeers can't walk and pee at the same time.

In 60s on drawing board was "Super" Orion Space ship with mass 8,000,000 tons propulsion method Nuclear pulse drive literary surfing on nuclear shock waves from mini nukes ;) In one go can lift entire city to Low Earth Orbit ;) Everything with less radiation impact than single nuclear tests from 50s.
Also nuclear pulse drive is only technology currently that we can use to reach alpha Centauri below 50years, max theoretical speed 9%–11% C

On average, a person has more than 1 skeleton in their body

2 fun facts about the brain:
Sixty percent of the human brain is made of fat. Not only does that make it the fattiest organ in the human body, but these fatty acids are crucial for your brain’s performance
The human brain can generate about 23 watts of power (enough to power a lightbulb)

Weird things that are (or used to be) the law:
New Jersey

All motorists must honk before passing another car, bicyclist, skater, and even a skateboarder.
It is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.

Idaho

It is illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds

Nevada

It is illegal to drive a camel on the highway

White Mountain National Forest (New Hampshire)
If a person is caught raking the beaches, picking up litter, hauling away trash, building a bench for the park, or many other kind things without a permit, he/she may be fined $150 for ”maintaining the national forest without a permit”.

Connecticut

A fire engine should not exceed 25 m.p.h. – even on the way to a fire

Michigan

It’s against the law to sit in the middle of the street and read a newspaper

Pennsylvania

Any motorist driving along a country road at night must stop every mile and send up a rocket signal, wait ten minutes for the road to be cleared of livestock, and continue.

Do you want to know something interesting?
Some sharks are ovoviviparous which means the eggs hatch inside the female's body, then are born. However, with some kinds of sharks, the numbers of eggs that hatch don't match up with the number of pups born. Do you know why? Cannibalism. When the eggs hatch, the pups resort to cannibalizing their siblings in the mother's belly. From the moment they are born, the fratricide begins. Other than itself, every other pup is fodder.

I am a slow eater and noticed I chew my food quite longer than most people, so when I learned about Fletcherism being that but intentionally I was interested.

Fletcherism: the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher. Started in the early 1900s.
It's supposed to be a healthy thing, like a fad diet, but it got a following that turned almost into a cult.
I think that's about enough of the fact but if you're interested in more for some reason just look up Fletcherism.

Don't know if the event is still running, but here's a bit of information for ya.

In Christianity, Satan is depicted as a fallen angel who rebelled against God, and was cast down into Hell. However, in Islam, Satan isn't an angel, but rather a Jinn, which are more commonly known as Genie in the Western World.

The Jinn are depicted as a precursor race to humanity, created from fire. Due to fire being their base material, they are considered to be more emotional and less logical than humans. Anyway, the angels in Islam don't have free will. They are literally incapable of disobeying God, which raises the question of why was Satan, or Iblis as he was known back then, with the angels when they were ordered to prostrate before Adam. Well, Satan was supposed to be the leader of the Jinns, and his worship was so great, that he was allowed to sit amongst the angels.

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sad fact: there's a fox village in Japan that won't let you pet the foxes

The abbreviation "OMG" dated back to 1917 when it was first used in a letter to Winston Churchill from a Naval Admiral.

On one of the first missions of GTA:San Andreas when you go to buy food and Big Smoke orders a lot of hamburgers, He's actually making time for the Ballas to come and raid. It's not a joke about his obesity as everyone thinks
In the shooting that follows the raid he doesnt even shoot once showing from the beginning of the game that he was a traitor

Believe me or not, I did it to myself.

You’re going to be taller in the morning

Wanna proof? measure yourself in the morning, then evening or before bed. Check yourself.

When I was a teenager 20 years ago, I wrote an email to FSB (former KGB) offering myself to work as their spy in my country.

They replied.

You can fit all of the other planets in our solar system between the earth and the moon

The original creator of Microsoft DoS was not Bill Gates. While Tim Patterson invented Q-Dos which stood for Quick N' Dirty Operating System; the original code was made by Gary Kildall, the creator of C/PM OS "First UNIVERSAL OS". It was not stolen however but merely copied. This was due to multiple bad events and timings in Gary's personal life as well as missing out on meeting IBM executives at a time when they were looking for someone to create an OS {Literally, they went to Gary's House and his wife refused to sign an NDA which caused them to leave}. There's your interesting fact. The father of modern computers isn't Gates, but Gary. :)

The skin color of an adult polar bear is surprisingly pitch black.
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I like bees, so:

Bees can fly higher than 29,525 feet above sea level, according to National Geographic. That’s higher than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world.