Facts

1. There are more synapses (nerve connections) in your brain than there are stars in our galaxy. 

2. Heroin was once used to treat children's coughs

3. The YKK on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.”

4. Hippo milk is pink

5. The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.

6. Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.

7. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

8. For every human on Earth there are approximately 1.6 million ants. The total weight of all those ants is approximately the same as the total weight of all the humans on Earth.

9.  One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as “imperforate anus.” This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.

10. Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.

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