- A group of crows is called a murder
- Aquatic turtles can breathe through their butt during hibernation in the winter. This is known as “cloacal respiration.”
- Your brain runs on about the same power as a phone charger, roughly 20 watts
- The smell of rain is called “petrichor”
- The first person convicted of speeding was going 8 mph in 1896
- There is a ghost island that appears on some maps but doesn’t exist, called “Sandy Island”
- You’re slightly taller in the morning because your spine decompresses while you sleep
- The human body contains enough carbon to make about 900 pencils
- There are more possible ways to shuffle a deck of cards than seconds since the Big Bang
- There’s a museum dedicated entirely to broken relationships
