1] One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
Peanuts Are One of the Ingredients in Dynamite. Peanut oil can be processed to produce glycerol, which can be used to make nitroglycerin, an explosive liquid used in dynamite.
2]The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus.
More precisely, a specific honey fungus measuring 2.4 miles (3.8 km) across in the Blue Mountains in Oregon is thought to be the largest living organism on Earth. Several species of fungi belong to the Armillaria genus, which is popularly known as honey fungus
3] The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
The Anglo-Zanzibar War was a military conflict fought between Great Britain and the Zanzibar Sultanate on 27 August 1896. The conflict lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, marking it as the shortest recorded war in history.
4] While you sleep you can’t smell anything.
While sound can disrupt sleep, scents cannot. People cannot rely on their sense of smell to awaken them to the danger of fire, according to a new Brown University study. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — While sound can disrupt sleep, scents cannot.
5] Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think, and does not feel pain.
A typical adult human brain runs on around 12 watts—a fifth of the power required by a standard 60 watt lightbulb.
6] Your fingernails grow slower when you are cold.
The nail grows slower in cold weather and faster in warm weather because circulation is slower in the cold weather, causing a growth slow down. If there is damage to the matrix, the nail may be deformed.
7] A tsunami can travel as fast as a jet plane.
Tsunamis can travel at speeds of about 500 miles or 805 kilometers an hour, almost as fast as a jet plane. The states in the U.S. at greatest risk for tsunamis are Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.
8] Cows can walk up stairs, but not down them.
You can lead a cow up a flight a stairs but you can‘t lead it back down again. Because of how their knees bend, or so the “fact” goes, cows simply cannot climb down stairs.
9] Tomatoes and avocados are actually fruits, not vegetables.
In the world of food, there are many plants most people consider vegetables that are actually fruits, botanically speaking. The most famous example is probably the tomato.
10] Water covers 70% of Earth.
Water covers 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, but only a fraction is fresh.
11] About 70% of an adult’s body is water.
Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.
12] Apples can float on water.
It is also one of the only fruits that float in water. Just like ice, apples are less dense than liquid water. The fruits are actually around one quarter air by volume, a feature of their uniquely porous, relatively dry flesh.
13] Number four is the only one with the same amount of letters.
Four is the only number that has the same amount of letters as its value.
14] Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
Your heart is a muscle about the same size as your fist.
15] The opposite sides of the dice always add up to seven.
Every dice is designed such that the number on opposite sides add up to seven. The Cube has 6 sides, so on counting the sides, we get 6 as the largest number and smallest number is 1. and similarly, 3+4=7.
16] Orange has almost no perfect rhymes.
17] When you grow up you’ll have 32 teeth.
A full set of adult teeth will amount to 32 teeth in total. This includes the wisdom teeth, which grow in at the back of the mouth. These normally grow in much later and can be expected between the ages of 17 and 21. For some people wisdom teeth don’t grow in at all
18] Some lipsticks contain fish scales.
19] A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
20] Australia has the most amount of reptiles in the world.
Australia has the most amount of reptiles in the world.