At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
30
There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.
85
Pollen can travel up to 500 miles in a day.
40
Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
222
Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
29
Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
153
There are 86,400 seconds in a day.
110
Not swinging your arms when you walk increases the effort of walking by 12%, the equivalent of walking 20% faster or carrying a 10 kg backpack.
12