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There are 1.67 sextillion (1,670,000,000,000,000,000,000) H2O molecules in a single drop of water.

When threatened by a predator, an emu will spontaneously shed several hundred feathers in an effort to distract its pursuer.

On October 20, 1998, Dr. Norman Gary held 109 honeybees in his closed mouth to set the current world’s record.

That would be the world’s record for the most honeybees held in one’s mouth.

Anyone up for 110?

Anyone..?

While scientifically classified as fruit, tomatoes in the United States are lawfully vegetables - having been designated thus by the Supreme Court in 1893.

Recently, I was given the hateful task of procuring adapters for telephone and power jacks in five European countries.

Here are the power plugs for every nation in the world. Don’t forget your converter if your device is not dual-voltage. Most of the rest of the world uses 220V-240V. The U.S. and Canada use 120V.

And here is a place you can buy all the phone adapters.

Better yet - just don’t go anywhere. It’s all a big pain in the ass anyway…

About 74 million years ago, the state of Iowa was on the coast of an inland sea that bisected North America. The climate was tropical and the land was a rainforest, covered in ferns and flowering plants.

Then, a meteorite 1.5 - 2 miles in diameter and traveling over 43,000 miles per hour struck in what is now Pocahontas county. The resulting impact devastated life within a radius of 350 miles and created a crater 24 miles in diameter.

Glacial drift during the ice age covered up the crater. So you’ll have to take my word for it.

People suffering from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy often exhibit symptoms such as sexual disinterest, hypergraphia (obsessive compulsion to write), and zealous interest in religion and/or morality.

By examining the enamel on one’s teeth, it is possible to determine where that person spent his/her childhood.

From Reuters (via CNN):
“Different ratios of oxygen isotopes form on teeth in different parts of the world”

By evaluating this signature of isotope ratios, it can be determined where a person lived while his/her adult teeth were forming.

One in every 123 U.S. workers is employed by Wal-Mart.

There are some 40,000 330,000 species of beetle. There are more beetles on the planet than any other animal.

Beetles have very complex circulatory systems, including some 8-10 hearts, which seems to suggest that stabbing is not the most efficient way to do away with a beetle.

(Edited to revise number of species.)