The human brain can store up to 2.5 petabytes of information, which is the same as about 300 years of HD video.

Plastic used to be made of milk, not oil.

There is a town in Norway called "Hell," and it frequently freezes over.

There's an uninhabited island in New York City called North Brother Island. It was once home to a quarantine hospital, where "Typhoid Mary" was confined. Today, it's an eerie, abandoned place hidden in the midst of the bustling city.

The severed head of a sea slug can grow a whole new body.

During the civil war in Myanmar Facebook played a major role.

Society there made a huge technological jump very fast but the internet was synonymous with Facebook thus people were quite literally unfamiliar with the concepts of mass media or misinformation. The war was very fundamentally fueled by misinformation/propaganda which was promoted by Facebooks algorithm which favored controversial/ragebait posts.

And in all this time Facebook only had a single moderator for the whole country to review posts.

I don't know if it's well known, but the amount of BTC mined in a halving cycle is greater than what will be mined in all subsequent cycles. That's because:

1 = 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ...

In this case the number of terms on the right is finite, so the left side is greater.

In the early 1700s a young woman named Mary Toft tricked several doctors -- including the royal doctor to King George I -- into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. She ultimately confessed to the hoax, but it undermined the credibility of the entire medical profession at the time.

'Airplane Mode' when enabled protects cell coverage for people on the ground, not the airplane's communications.

Likelihood of 'guessing' incorrect 12-word seed:

If you are cracking eggs for cooking something, you can hit the eggs together ( dont be crazy about it... ) and basically 100% of the time only one of the eggs will crack. I learned this like 5 years ago and its now my preferred way to crack eggs.

The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg

Scooby-Doo's real name is Scoobert Doo

Fun Fact: 91 gallons of water is needed to produce one pound of corn

There’s a life-size statue of Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees at the bottom of a lake (the old Louise mine pit) in Crosby, Minnesota.

The French Foreign Legion is made up of all foreigners.

The platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs

Canada eats more macaroni and cheese than any other country

One fun fact that many people might not know is that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

The first-ever webcam or video stream was used to watch a pot of coffee. Not Chickens.

Birds are evolved from snakes. I think because of that cats are being extremely alerted when they see birds.

It's untrue that the term 'Third World' country means a 'poor' country.

The term was used during the Cold War to define countries who had neither aligned with the U.S. / NATO, nor aligned with the USSR.

The first vending machine was created in Egypt around 215 BC. It dispensed holy water when a coin was inserted into the slot.

There's a jellyfish species called Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the immortal jellyfish. This incredible creature has the ability to revert to a younger stage after reaching maturity, effectively restarting its life cycle. This process can occur multiple times, potentially leading to biological immortality

Did you know that on Earth, there's a place called "Salar de Uyuni" in Bolivia, which is the largest salt flat in the world? It's so vast that during certain times of the year, it becomes the largest mirror on Earth!

Did you know that the Finns celebrate Oct 13 as their National Day of Failure? It started in 2010 by some university students because they wanted to encourage more start-ups, given that the typical Finn abhors failure and won’t be inclined towards entrepreneurship

The government does not have your best interests at heart

The human brain can hold up to 2.5 petabytes of information, which is the equivalent of about 300 years of HD video.

The ridges on the side of a coin exist because when coins were made from precious metals, shaving some of the metal off would result in a very noticeable gap in those ridges. So the ridges prevent devaluation of coins by shaving (besides, government will devaluate them for you given enough time)

The Tyrannosaurus Rex is closer in time history to the first Iphone than to the Stegosaurus! :D

The US Constitution either authorizes all of the government's actions or is incapable of preventing them.

A cockroach can live over a week without its head.

Bitcoin faucets were originally created to dispense 5 BTC (500 million sats) per visitor

The Spanish Foreign Legion doesn’t accept foreigners…

All hardware wallets have a limitation of holding 21 million Bitcoins.

Four is the only number in the English language with the same number of letters as the number itself.

Ten is three, three is five, five is four. Four is the magic number.

The most expensive food in the world is caviar, which is made from the eggs of sturgeon fish.

The largest animal in the world is the blue whale, which can weigh up to 200 tons.

The average human heart beats about 100,000 times per day.

The hottest place on Earth is Death Valley, California, which has recorded temperatures of up to 134 degrees Fahrenheit.

An octopus has three hearts

The world's oldest known living land animal is a tortoise named Jonathan, who is over 190 years old.

Ice pops were invented by an 11-year-old by accident