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  • Hey, looking for some ice breakers for you.

  • Next, get together with people you know or want to know better.

  • Well, check these out.

  • Twins can be born several months apart.

  • The ostriches eyes are bigger than its brain.

  • Baby is likely to have more than five fingers on its hand if one of its parents has the same condition.

  • Are these real facts?

  • Are old wives tales?

  • Let's figure it out.

  • The giant squid has a complex brain, which is tiny compared to the animal's body.

  • The most astonishing thing, though it's shaped like a doughnut and the squids esophagus.

  • The pipe delivering food to the stomach runs through the doughnut hole.

  • It means that two big food chunks can hurt the brain.

  • Your taste receptors won't work without saliva.

  • Try wiping your tongue with a paper towel until it's dry, and then put a piece of your favorite food in your mouth.

  • Spoiler.

  • You won't taste any flavor unless your food is dissolved in saliva.

  • Your taste buds can't detect food molecules.

  • The filling between KitKat waffles is made of other sub standard kit gets.

  • Let's say something's gone wrong, and a Kit Kat bar has too many bubbles or is in perfect in some other way that Mars its appearance, but not the taste.

  • No problem.

  • It gets mashed up into a smooth paste and turned into a new bars filling.

  • The longest time between the birth of twins was 87 days.

  • Then one girl was born almost four months before the due date, while the other waited for the appropriate time to draw her first breath.

  • If you manage to find a body of water huge enough to fit Saturn, this gigantic planet would float on its surface.

  • It's a gas planet made up of 94% hydrogen, 6% helium and tiny amounts of ammonia and methane.

  • All these gases air less dense and lighter than water.

  • That's why the planet wouldn't submerge your shoe laces.

  • Keep untie ing because every time you walk, the knots on them are under a huge gravitational force, seven times higher than normal.

  • For comparison, the world's most powerful roller coaster makes you experience a gravitational force of 6.3 Geez, ever seen tiny dots traveling in squiggly lines, especially while you're staring at the bright blue sky.

  • The dots are only visible for a second or less and might look like itsy bitsy worms.

  • Those are your white blood cells moving inside the Capitol Aries in front of your eye retina.

  • Interestingly, most people don't notice these dots until asked to pay attention.

  • If a tooth was accidentally knocked out along its room, it can't be placed right back in its place, and it'll heal.

  • But you should act in the 1st 30 minutes.

  • Otherwise it'll be too late.

  • Starfish don't have a centralized brain.

  • Their nervous system is evenly spread throughout their legs.

  • Or are they arms anyway?

  • Instead of blood?

  • These creatures, you see water to pump different nutrients through their bodies.

  • The last letter added to the English alphabet wasn't see it was jag.

  • It's also no coincidence that I and J stand side by side.

  • These letters started out as the same character.

  • Doctors recognize more than 400 phobias, and some Internet resource is catalogued almost 1000 ranging from quite common, like the fear of darkness or spiders to outright bizarre.

  • For example, Po gona phobics are scared of beards and opta phobics of opening their eyes.

  • The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe shaped area in the Pacific ocean that contains 452 volcanoes as more than 75% of all the active and sleeping volcanoes in the world.

  • Almost 90% of all earthquakes, including 81% of the largest ones, happened in the ring of fire.

  • Now, when you breathe through your nose, one nostril always inhales Maur air than the other.

  • But don't worry.

  • They swap over every 15 minutes or so.

  • Also, one study claims that when you breathe through your right nostril, you get more oxygen than while doing it through your left.

  • One who knows most people don't notice it, but when you aren't using your tongue, it's closer to the upper palate than to the lower one.

  • Remember the history FM radio makes when it's tuned to a frequency between stations?

  • Part of this hiss, called white Noise, is the big bang.

  • In other words, you still hear how the universe was created about 13.8 billion years ago.

  • Several studies have proven that Children born prematurely are twice as likely to be left handed than babies who appear.

  • His plan.

  • It would take you almost half a year to reach the moon if you decided to travel by car at a speed of 65 miles per hour.

  • Never mind the fact that there are no roads to drive on.

  • Otherwise, if you moved at the speed of light, the whole trip would last just a bit more than one second.

  • Before color television appeared in the 19 fifties and sixties, 75% of people claimed they saw dreams in black and white.

  • These days it's only 12%.

  • Scientists claim they found an explanation for this phenomenon.

  • People who usedto watch black and white movies and TV in their childhood dream in gray scale throughout all their lives, the ostrich has huge eyes the size of full balls.

  • They take loads of space.

  • Probably that's why the bird's brain is so tiny smaller than either of its eyeballs.

  • It might be the reason why ostriches run in circles while trying to escape from predators.

  • Tiny spiders have huge brains, and itsy bitsy spider central nervous system fills up almost 80% of his body, including 25% of its legs.

  • A full time, which is a tiny packet of light, often spends more than 40,000 years to travel from the sun's core to its surface, but after that it needs just eight minutes to reach Earth.

  • You can turn almost any material that's capable of melting into glass.

  • You just have to be really quick to cool the moment substance off before its molecules realign back into what they used to be before being melted.

  • Now it looks as if flamingos knees bend backwards, but in fact it's their ankles, not needs.

  • The birds spend almost all their time on tiptoes.

  • It's hard to see their knees because they're close to the body and covered with feathers.

  • Apples you buy at the supermarket might not be as fresh as you think.

  • Usually, slightly unripe fruit gets picked sometime between August and November.

  • Then they get wax dried with hot air boxed and left in cold storage.

  • On Lee.

  • 6 to 12 months later, these apples finally land on the supermarket shelves.

  • The leech has its body divided into 32 separate segments, and each of them has its own brain.

  • By the way, this creature also has 10 stomachs, says right here.

  • In the early days of photography, a wide open smile was seen as a child.

  • Lishan rather imp alight That's why photographers told people to say prunes instead of cheese.

  • This word kept the mouth shut.

  • Holly did.

  • Actually.

  • The condition when a person has more than five fingers or toes on one for each hand or foot can be genetically inherited.

  • In other words, this condition can be passed to a baby by one of its parents.

  • Sloths.

  • The slowest animals on the planet are surprisingly good swimmers.

  • They have strong arms that help them move through the water.

  • The animals can also slow their heart rate down toe, 1/3 of its normal paste.

  • It allows them to hold their breath for up to 40 minutes while they're underwater.

  • Lobsters.

  • Wouldn't you know, have very poor vision?

  • That's why they get to know about their environment through touch, smell and taste.

  • But unlike most animals, lobsters taste by using tiny bristles inside their smaller clause, called pincers.

  • Thes bristles play the role of taste buds.

  • Oh, by the way, the lobsters teeth are in its stomach.

  • Nine banded armadillos always give birth to four genetically identical babies.

  • After birth, the little ones stay with her mother for 1/2 a year or so, Then leave toe have their own lives, dodging cars as they run across highways in Texas.

  • Little daredevils Hey, if you learn something new today, then give the video alike and cheer with a friend.

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