Fun Facts

By Cameron Kobara

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

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