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The left lung is smaller than the right due to the fact that it “frees up” space for the heart. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

27,000 trees go into making toilet paper every day. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Many spiders have a weak nervous system and can die from fear. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

The Arctic fox can withstand temperatures down to -70 degrees. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Cruise ships use up to 250 tons of fuel per day. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Coca-Cola has a flavor created in collaboration with AI: Coca-Cola Y3000 Zero Sugar. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

In 1990, Angelo Pitoni, an Italian geologist, bought some unusual blue stones from a Fula Chief in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The tribe claimed that the stones were acquired from beings who came from the sky. After returning to Europe, Pitoni had the mysterious rocks examined at a university, and the results showed that they did not match any known mineral. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

71 species of birds have disappeared from Hawaii since humans landed on the island. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

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The only vegetable that is also a flower is broccoli. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Slugs are the toothiest creatures on Earth • The number of their teeth can reach up to 75,000. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

The core temperature of the sun is approx 15,000,000 °C. Highest temperature ever achieved on Earth is 5,500,000,000,000 °C. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

A king cobra has enough venom to kill 20 people or one elephant. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Actors who smoke on camera most often smoke "herbal cigarettes" stuffed with lettuce or tea instead of tobacco. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Unlike the rings of Saturn, Jupiter's rings are made of miniscule particles of rock and dust—some as small as cigarette-smoke particles — which makes them dark and nearly impossible to see from Earth.

British India tried to get rid of cobras by offering a reward for captured snakes. Locals started breeding cobras and giving them to the government to collect the reward. The British found out and stopped the program. The breeders then released their snakes causing the population to increase. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Iron can become gas • To do this, it must be heated to 50,000 degrees Celsius. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

Thousands of Afghans celebrate their birthday on the first of January. • Because they don't know what day they were actually born. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

While dogs sleep, they can dream about their master. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚

The longest cigar in the world is a cigar with a length of 81.8 meters. 📚 @TheOpenUniversity 📚