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Body replaces cells constantly
Ice floats on water
Time slows at high speed
Electric cars run silently
Drones fly without pilots
AI generates images from text
India's NavIC system
Reusable rockets land back
GPS works without internet
On the Moon a feather and hammer fall together
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world's lakes combined.
Salt used to be traded for gold gram-for-gram.
The oldest known map is of the stars, not the Earth (cave painting 16,500 years ago).
Noise-cancelling headphones work by creating 'anti-noise' waves to cancel real noise.
Sharks have been around longer than trees (400 million years vs. 350 million).
A Formula 1 car's engine lasts only about 2,000 km - that's roughly 7 races before total rebuild.
The first programmable computer (Z3, 1941) had fewer transistors than a modern Christmas light string.
GPS satellites must adjust for Einstein's relativity - otherwise, they'd be off by 11 km per day.
A lithium-ion battery in a phone has no moving parts, yet can run for hours - the energy comes purely from ion movement.
The QWERTY keyboard was designed in 1870s to slow typists down (prevents jamming on typewriters).
Saturn V's F-1 engines burned 15 tons of fuel per second at liftoff - that's a swimming pool every 10 seconds.
The number 6174 is called Kaprekar's constant - try the Kaprekar routine with any 4-digit number (not all digits same) and you'll reach 6174.
The spiral of a nautilus shell follows the Fibonacci sequence - and so do pinecones, hurricanes, and galaxies.
Bananas contain potassium-40 and are slightly radioactive! You would need to eat 10 million bananas at once to get radiation sickness.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped! This prevents the feces from rolling away, helping them mark their territory on rocks and logs.
Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood! Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while one pumps it to the body.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus! It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit around the Sun.
Honey never spoils. You can theoretically eat 3,000-year-old Egyptian tomb honey and it would still taste delicious!