It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
47
Water is actually naturally blue.
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The Band-Aid was originally made for the inventor's wife, who often cut and burned herself while cooking.
6
Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
14
In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
13
The weight of air in a milk glass is about the same as the weight of one aspirin tablet.
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