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Did you know that the human body has more bacterial cells than human ones, and that identical twins have different fingerprints? Learn more with our fun facts of the day!
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In 2016, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science revealed that previous estimates suggesting the human body was 90 percent bacteria were wrong. Instead, the average adult has about 40 trillion bacterial cells and 30 trillion human ones.
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Environmental factors during development, such as positioning in the womb and rate of growth, cause slight differentiation of each fingerprint.
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Despite the grade, MLK Jr. graduated valedictorian of his class in 1951 and became one of the most highly respected speakers in U.S. history.
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Election days were set on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November for several reasons. Sundays were meant for worship, and Wednesdays were often market days. To accommodate for long travel, Tuesdays became the best day of the week to vote. Election days also couldn’t be the first Tuesday of the month in order to prevent voting on Nov. 1, a day some Christians observed as All Saints’ Day.
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Montpelier, Vermont, has the smallest population of any state capital at 8,000 residents. While it is the only state capital without a McDonald’s, there is one right outside its city limits.
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While adult feet can produce a cup of sweat each day, kid’s feet can sweat twice as much.
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According to the WorldAtlas, the precious metal is located 1,800 miles below the surface of the Earth and at many thousands of degrees.
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Each foot also has over 100 muscles, ligaments, and tendons.
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This is why insects can never get very big. Their respiratory system wouldn’t allow oxygen to travel to the inner parts of a larger animal fast enough.
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Receiving two X chromosomes with the orange gene is not common, especially when other colors, such as black, are much more prevalent among cats.
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The whale’s massive tongue helps the animal to eat massive amounts of krill, about 40 million krill a day.
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Bumblebees, which have a large body size and relatively small wings, were previously expected to struggle flying at high altitudes. However, alpine bumblebees surprisingly proved that they can hover at extreme barometric pressures, according to two researchers from the University of California and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
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According to the American Museum of Natural History,