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Half of your genes describe the complex design of your brain, with the other half describing the organization of the other 98% of your body.

Large dogs are generally faster and die younger.

Blood pressure and heart rate can be decreased by listening to relaxing music.

There are only two countries in the world that have the color purple in their flags; Nicaragua and Dominica.

Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand.

Sabiha Gokcen was a Turkish aviator. She was the world's first female fighter pilot, aged 23.

Newborns sleep a lot, typically up to 16 hours a day.

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, about one-third of the planet's population, and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims.

Australia claims to own the largest territory in Antarctica: 5.8 million sq km (2.2 million sq mi).

Ants can lift 50 times their own weight.

The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water, it would float.

There is a canyon in Maras, Peru which is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

There was a TV show in Iceland called "Keeping up with the Kattarshians". It was a 24 hour live broadcast of cats in a tiny model house.

Michio Hoshino was a Japanese-born nature photographer. Hoshino specialized in photographing Alaskan wildlife until he was killed by a brown bear while on assignment in Kurilskoye Lake, Russia, in 1996.

The fingernails on your dominant hand grow faster.

Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. Also, it is three times taller than Mount Everest.

First Ray-Ban glasses were produced for U.S. Army Air Forces.

Spain was neutral in WW1 and WW2 but experienced a civil war (1936-1939) which killed over 500,000 people.

Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium, and fiber.

It's not true that babies are born with the ability to swim.