There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
349
The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
14
In many countries, urine was used as a detergent for washing.
17
"Strategic incompetence" is the art of avoiding certain tasks by pretending you don't know how to do them.
16
Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
29
At 90 degrees below zero, your breath will freeze in mid-air and fall to the ground.
25
There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
241
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
39