Our planet is a delightful place. There is so much interesting information about her that you probably haven't even heard of some things. Luckily, Reddit users have amassed a collection of cool facts about life on Earth that will blow your mind, from a tiny bear that can survive in a vacuum to Maryland's bizarre sports traditions. Enjoy.
The largest living organism on Earth is a mushroom. The giant honey agaric lies 3.8 kilometers underground in the Blue Mountains (Oregon, USA).
Miss Piggy from The Muppets Show and Master Yoda from Star Wars speak the same voice: they were voiced by actor Frank Oz.
Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear, fought for the Poles during World War II. He eventually rose to the rank of corporal, and also often drank beer and smoked cigarettes.
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There are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy: vegetation outperforms the luminaries by 3 trillion: 100 billion
From the moment Pluto was discovered in 1930 and until it was excluded from the list of planets of the solar system in 2006, it did not manage to complete even one complete revolution around the Sun: it takes about 248 years.
In Japan, manga comics use more paper than toilet paper.
There are no words in the Spanish anthem.
Honey does not spoil. You can eat 3,000 year old honey in peace.
Mantis shrimps can swing their claws at such a speed that water boils around and flashes of light appear.
The corpse can also get goosebumps.
A small percentage of the ripples that we see on a TV screen when tuned contain radiation that has existed since the Big Bang. We are able to observe the residual effects of the creation of the universe.
The main sport of Maryland is jousting.
When we breathe through our nose, we always breathe in more air through one of the nostrils than through the other. They change every 15 minutes.
If we remove all the empty space from the atoms that make up all people on Earth, the planet's population would fit in one apple.
When the pyramids were built, woolly mammoths still lived on Earth.
There are more possible variants of the layout of chess games than there are atoms in the known part of the Universe.
If all the gold contained in the Earth's core is scattered over its surface, it will cover the planet in a knee-deep layer.
It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes (assuming everyone takes one bite) to drink all the blood of the average person.
To understand when it is time to mate, male giraffes butt females in the bladder area until they urinate. Then the males taste the urine - this helps them understand how ready the female is for mating.
It may take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the solar core to the surface of a star, but only 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth.
Tardigrades, or small water bears, are usually only 0.5 mm long and can survive almost anywhere. Even in a vacuum.
Anything that melts can be made into glass. You just need to cool the molten material before its molecules have time to rearrange in the order in which they were before melting.
Writing was invented independently by the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Chinese and Maya Indians.