Facts to Blow Your Mind: Things They Didn't Teach you in Science

Sloths and manatees are the only mammals that do not have seven vertebrae in their neck. (All other mammals — field mice to giraffes — have seven.)

If you squeezed an average cumulus cloud into a container, the water content would weigh about one million pounds.

Every C in “Pacific Ocean” is pronounced differently.

The 'black' box on the airplane is painted orange to make it easier to find after an accident.

Tornadoes are invisible. We can't see wind what we see is cloud vapor and all the stuff churned up from the ground by the vortex.

It's a good thing Greenland sharks live to be about 400 years old. They aren't able to reproduce until they are about 150.

The technical term for this... # is "octothorpe."

A postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University believes the purpose of a yawn may be to cool the brain. The stretching of the jaw to yawn increases blood flow in the neck, face, and head. At the same time, the deep intake of breath forces a downward flow of spinal fluid and blood from the brain. The air breathed into the mouth cools these fluids.

William Shatner actually went into space in 2021 at age 90, so... did you know Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the Star Trek theme song because he wanted the composer to have to split the royalties with him?

Beyond / The rim of the star-light My love / Is wand'ring in star-flight I know / He'll find in star-clustered reaches Love, / Strange love a star woman teaches. I know / His journey ends never His star trek / Will go on forever. But tell him / While he wanders his starry sea Remember, remember me.