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Our planet once ate another, smaller, planet.

The Appalachian Mountains are older than trees.

Everything about fecal transplant. Or maybe just the fact that it is even a legitimate medical procedure

Every single one of us is travelling through space on a tiny speck of dirt, circling a permanent explosion that doesn't know how to stop itself at 30km/s.
That explosion and multiple specks of dirt besides our own dance around the center of the galaxy in a complex ballet with 200 billion other permanently exploding balls of fire and plasma, many of which are sizeably larger than ours and also have collected pieces of dirt circling around them, at a speed of 200km/s. The center of this agglomeration of giant balls of fire and dirt is a... thing... that is in itself so massive it can't help eating everything that comes near including suns, light, and the concept of time.

And there, travelling around the center of the galaxy at 200km/s, spiraling around your sun at 30km/s, there is you. And somehow you have to work tomorrow.

If you're not familiar with the flavors of quarks, they probably seem fake.

• Up
• Down
• Top
• Bottom
• Charm
• Strange

Of course they all have antimatter counterparts. But anti-up is not the same as a down quark, anti-top is not the same as a bottom quark, etc.

If you get methanol poisoning for example from badly made liquor then the remedy for that is to drink ethanol (good liquor).

The average human being has (approximately) one testicle and one ovary.

Bloodletting is still a legitimate medical treatment, now called therapeutic phlebotomy.

Some medicines, like testosterone, can increase your hemoglobin or blood count, so donating blood is the fix for it.

You can see where the pacific ocean meets the atlanic ocean

There are over 100 volcanos on Antarctica

France is bigger at Christmas than at Easter.

Reason: Pheasant Island.

Trigger Warning: Existential Crisis

Ethanol can help protect your liver from the damage an acetaminophen overdose causes.

You'd think that doubling up on liver harming substances would have an additive effect, but nope.

Despite plants being associated with the color green, chlorophyll is actually a poor absorber of green wavelengths of light.

Hence the reason plants are green, because they absorb the blue and red wavelengths of light, but reflect the green.

There are more grains of sand on the planet Earth than there are stars in the solar system.

Everything that's made of atoms is 99.9999999% empty (if it is indeed correct, I don't have much scientific knowledge)

https://medium.com/illumination/why-solid-matter-is-mostly-empty-space-03f42e95c03f

Rabbits must eat special poop straight from their butt as a part of a healthy diet.

The Kings Chamber in the great pyramid of Egypt maintains an average temperature of 68°F (20°C).