By Lucie Winborne
A 90-minute cassette tape (if you still actually own any) is 443 feet long.
The oldest known fingered gloves, dating to around 1323 B.C., were made of linen and found in King Tutankhamen's tomb, and are believed to have been used for holding his chariot reins.
A mantis shrimp can see colors that humans cannot.
In Ancient Egypt, the smoke from a burning sandal was inhaled as a cure for headache.
At one time airplane windows were square, but their sharp corners acted as weak points that cracked under high altitude cabin pressure.
Jupiter completes a single rotation in just under 10 hours.
Beyonce fan Jesse Hill created an unofficial video for the singer's "Drunk in Love" that translated the song entirely into emojis.
Cats can rotate their ears up to 180 degrees.
Time slows down dramatically near a black hole, to the extent that if you survived standing close enough to one, years could pass for the universe while mere minutes passed for you.
Ever feel like your cellphone is buzzing even when it isn't? That's because our brains can get so addicted to notifications that it can literally invent them.
Male reindeer shed their antlers after the mating season ends by early December, while females retain theirs. So since mating season is in autumn, Santa's reindeer would most likely be female.
Fossil evidence suggests that certain dinosaur eggs contained pigments.
Lexical-gustatory synesthesia causes people to experience specific tastes when they hear or read certain words.
Some snails can have more than 25,000 teeth.
During hibernation, bears recycle their waste products into usable proteins instead of excreting them, which helps preserve muscle and conserve energy in winter.
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