Scallops have teeth and eyes up to 200.

Due to ocean tides and earthquakes days get longer by 1.7 milliseconds each century.

It takes between 813 and 982 rubber bands to crush a human skull.

The position your tongue sits in in your mouth usually depends on what your first language is.

The longest English word is 189,819 letters long and it would take three and a half hours to say out loud.

If you lose the little cup to a Nyquil or Zzzquil bottle, to achieve a 30 mL dose you require 4 capfuls filled to the inside rim.

The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 30cm long and over two litres in volume.

There’s no such thing as zero-calorie foods. Even low-calorie foods, such as celery and watercress, contain more energy than the body needs to process them. 

All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years. 

The world’s oldest dog lived to 29.5 years old.

The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old.

Wind turbines kill between 10,000 and 100,000 birds each year in the UK.

Snails have teeth. Between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, to be precise.

A study in 2016 purports that among men, a larger signature correlates with higher social bravado and, among women, a bigger signature correlates with narcissistic traits.

One in 18 people have a third nipple. 

Deaf people are known to use sign language in their sleep.

Hippos don’t swim, they sink to the bottom of the riverbed and gallop in slow motion.

In 2013, a woman required surgery to remove feces build up as she was constipated for 45 days.

Studies have shown that even in emergencies, fish form orderly queues in order to not clog things up.

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Salvador Dalí would often get out of paying for drinks and meals by drawing on the checks, making them priceless works of art.

In 2013, Chinese scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.

Spiked and studded dog collars come from the days of the Ancient Greeks, who gave their sheep-dogs sharply spiked collars to protect their necks from wolves.

One study has shown that a male zebra finch is less likely to try and court a female zebra finch if he didn’t form any social friendships with female zebra finches when younger.

The only state flag with the Union Jack on it? Hawaii!

Studies have shown that Surgeons who play video games for at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.

The word “quarantine” comes from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words “quaranta giorni,” meaning “forty days.” Why? Because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plagued rats, they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.

Approximately 1,000,000 dogs in the U.S. are named as the heirs of their owners’ wills. This makes me happy.

When written down, the word ‘almost’ is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.

A study was conducted that showed customers in a bookstore were 3.48 times more likely to peruse romantic books if the store smelt like chocolate and 5.93 times more likely to buy them! That’d work on me, anyway.

Sonic the Hedgehog is in the Guinness Book of Records for being the fasted video game character ever.

In 1908, Thomas Sullivan invented the tea bag by accident. He put them in silk bags to divide the teas for sampling. People were confused and so they dipped them in hot water. Thomas was immediately swamped with orders for these bags.

The word “oxymoron” is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek, where “oxy” means “sharp” and “moros” means “stupid.”

Bruno Mars’s birth name is Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez.

2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.

The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line, then they would be executed by their guards.

The term ‘deadline’ comes from the American Civil War. Prisoners would have lines drawn around them in the dirt, and if they crossed this line, then they would be executed by their guards.

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Comets smell like rotten eggs. 

Ketchup was once sold as medicine. 

Only male toads make loud croaking sounds.

A woman in the United Kingdom once called the police when her ice cream didn’t have enough sprinkles.

The American white pelican can hold up to three gallons of water in its mouth.

Bees can fly higher than Mount Everest.

Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch.

Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long.

Peanuts aren’t a type of nut. (They are actually legumes.)

The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.

Your nose and ears never stop growing.

Cats can’t taste anything sweet.

Male deer shed their antlers every year.

Approximately one quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

There are more than one million different species of insects on the planet.

Around 80 percent of orange cats are male.

The world’s largest butterfly, Queen Alexandra’s birdwing, has a wingspan of around 10 inches.

M&M’s were the first candy that eaten in space.

Lions can sleep up to 21 hours in a day.

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“Cleanses to reduce the “toxins” in your body. We have organs for that: your liver and kidneys. If those aren’t working you have problems way bigger than any juice can handle.”

“”Manifestation.” Babe, that’s not the universe aligning. That’s just you ignoring red flags while journaling in cursive.”

“Flat earth. I know a lot of it is trolling, but there are some sincere crazies out there.”

“Homeopathy. That really needs to go away.”

“Scientology…………………….F**k them so bad there a******s reach all the way to their front flappas.”

“Chiropractor.”

“Vaccines cause autism.”

“That a wolf pack has an alpha male.”

“The idea that the brain stops developing after a certain age, or that we only use 10% of it.”

“Crystals. Girl told me she put one under her bed to attract love and ended up hooking up with her ex who gave her chlamydia. The universe *did* send someone, just not with good intentions.”

“Personality tests. Specifically Myers Briggs. The amount of smart people i encounter who think its real never ceases to amaze me. Cue folks chiming in here that’s its actually scientific in 3…2….”

“Trickle-down economics.”

“Ghost hunters/ paranormal investigators/cyrptid investigators.”

“All those supplements bros on podcasts are selling you.”

“Healing crystals and essential oils.”

“Copper bracelets etc to help with pain.”

“Amber bracelets and necklaces on toddlers to prevent teething pain.”

“Lie detectors and most other forms of “forensic science” outside of DNA.”

“Getting a cold after being outside in the cold.”

“From a reddit interaction a few hours ago, astrology apparently.”

“Ancient Astronaut Theory”.

“My coworker just tried telling me yesterday that the sex position you use will determine the gender of the baby.”

“I know a lot of people praise eastern medicine, but I think it’s BS. I remember that story of that influencer who thought she could beat cancer with juices and coffee enemas. Well guess what, she died of cancer.”

“The concept of race. Our modern concept of race is pseudoscience on the level of flat earther type s**t.”

“Alkaline Diets.”

“As a teacher, I will chime in with **learning styles**. The idea that learners can be categorized as either those who learn by seeing, hearing or doing. No basis is peer reviewed research whatsoever.Turns out that the student’s interest in the subject is far more important – as well as the quality of the teacher.””

“I’ve been told by alcoholics that drinking liquor stops you from getting diseases like COVID.”

“Cupping, acupuncture, aromatherapy, chiropractic, etc, etc, etc.”

“Body language experts.

Also I don’t know if that counts since actual psychology is of course a real science, but there’s a lot of pop psychology going around that is based on approximately nothing.”

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