The sound of an ATM drawing cash is a manufactured sound. It’s just to let you know that the ATM is indeed working and that your money is coming up.

If sound could be transmitted through space, the sun would be so loud on earth it would be the equivalent of standing next to a jet engine, even though it’s 94 million miles away.

Nuclear reactors are very fancy kettles

Hypothetically (assuming you could actually hear the Sun), if the Sun suddenly went out one day, we’d see it go dark about 8 minutes later. Over the next few weeks the Earth would freeze, and almost all life would cease to exist. Then, almost 14 years later, the frozen lifeless wasteland of Earth would stop hearing the roar of its dead star.

If you made $10,000 per day, every day since the pyramids were built around 4,500 years ago, you’d have 6% of Elon Musk’s wealth.

It only takes 70 people to be in a room together for there to be a 99.99% chance that two people share the same birthday.

Nintendo at one point in time owned a number of “Love Hotels”

In a game of chess after you played your first 5 moves and your opponent played his first 5 moves, there are already like 70 trillion possible chess games that could have been played

Pufferfish contain a toxin in their spikes that kills predators. It has a slightly different effect on dolphins though, in that it gets them high. So teenage dolphins will pass around pufferfish and impale themselves off of them to get stoned. Note: I have a new answer for the “what type of animal would you be?” question. Note pt. 2: a whole new meaning to “puff puff pass”

Babies are not born with kneecaps! Instead a small piece of cartilage that later goes through ossification (turning to bone) becoming the patella (kneecap). Usually develops during the 2-6 year old range.

KFC’s Twitter profile follows exactly 11 accounts: 6 random people named Herb and the 5 members of the British pop band Spice Girls.

Tumors can grow miniature organs, hair and teeth, and are referred to as “teratomas”

Grass evolved 66 million years ago Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago The vast majority of dinosaurs never existed at the same time as grass

Babys are able to survive longer under water than adults/kids. It‘s f*cking insane how long they survive. That‘s because babys have a reflex to not breath under water. Drowning isn‘t oxygen-deprivation, it‘s water filling up the lungs.

Kangaroos have three vaginas

Male elephants have internal testicles so that predators don’t jump up and bite them off.

You can fit 1.3 million earths inside the sun.

When working for the Australian shooting team heading for Tokyo. Found out that alcohol is a banned substance not because guns and alcohol are bad (as my feeble brain suspected ) but because it’s a performance enhancing drug due to slowing the heart rate.

A day on Venus is longer than a year. A day on Venus lasts 243 days and a year 225 days.

The Queen of England has been alive for 1/3 of all American history.

Mario wears a hat because during the Donkey Kong days (when he was known as Jumpman) the animation was too primitive to animate hair while he was moving or jumping

Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs!

If you lose your Wii sensor bar, you can use two candles instead. The only thing the sensor bar does is emit two points of infrared light, which fire does naturally. The wire that connects to the Wii is nothing but a power supply. All the actual data transfer happens between the remote and the console.