One jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds across the globe. ( )
That’s enough to write 45,000-50,000 words or the entirety of "The Great Gatsby." (Fox News)
The first people to vote from space were two Russian cosmonauts in 1996. NASA astronaut David Wolf became the first American to vote from orbit the following year. ( )
The word "hello" was previously used to attract attention, such as, "Hello, what do you think you're doing?" ( )
The original owner of the book, a doctor, sourced the binding from a deceased female patient at a hospital where he worked. According to him, "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering." ( )
It would require 1.3 million Earths to fill the volume of the Sun. ( )
The distance between sea level and the edge of space is 62 miles. ( )
Wheels were added to suitcases in 1970, one year after Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. ( )
His teacher later bumped his grade to an A after the U.S. Congress accepted it as America’s national flag. ( )
People will waste sixth months of their lives waiting for traffic lights to turn green ( )
Humans will start the day just slightly taller ( )
Writers used to use wet bread as erasers until the modern rubber tools were invented around 1770 ( )
Many Russians considered beer a soft drink until a decade ago ( )
The Australian marsupials are the only animals known to produce cube-shaped feces ( )
Salivary gland production varies between 2-6 cups per day. ( )
The underwater mailbox was proposed to attract more tourists and divers to Susami Bay ( )
The addictive quality and small packaging of cheese makes the dairy product highly targeted among shoplifters ( )
The 1992 law helps prevent people from spitting gum on the ground ( )
The "immortal jellyfish" can also hit the reset button when it becomes injured or threatened ( )
Birds, monkeys and even snakes have been spotted inside the Vietname cave ( )
An average person in the Western world eats about 70,000 pounds of food in a lifetime ( )
The Eiffel Tower was scheduled to be demolished after 20 years ( )
Lightning also moves about 30,000 times faster than a bullet ( )
Dubai's Burj Khalifa set the record as the world's tallest building in 2010 when it first opened ( )
People would spend 5 years of their entire life with their eyes closed solely from blinking. ( )
Antarctic glaciers contain so much water that they would raise sea levels by 190 feet if they ever completely melted. ( )
A quarter-pound burger requires the equivalent of about 10 bathtubs of water to be created. ( )
Mount Everest could grow 10 inches in the span of a human lifetime. ( )
There are more trees than there are stars in the Milky Way. ( )
Honeybees must visit 2 million flowers to create one pound of honey. ( )
The length of the Great Wall of China equates to more than half the Earth's circumference. ( )
While it took over a century for the human population to go from one to two billion people, it took just over a decade for seven billion to go to eight billion. ( )
The Eiffel Tower can stretch an extra 6 inches depending on the temperature. ( )
On Venus, a day shockingly lasts longer than a year. ( )
Data equivalent to a quarter-million Libraries of Congress are created every day. ( )
The total length of a human's blood vessels could circle the earth at least twice. ( )
The total length of a human's blood vessels could circle the earth at least twice. ( )
There are over 100 strikes per second around the world! ( )