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The universal recycle symbol is a Möbius strip.

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The axons in your brain could span a distance of 100,000 miles, which is four times around the Earth.

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The probability of finding a four-leaf clover on your first try are just 1 in 10,000. So according to science, finding one is pretty lucky indeed.

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Albert Einstein used to walk with his friend Kurt Gödel every day at Princeton. Einstein told a colleague that his works didn't mean much to him as much as walking with Gödel in his later years.

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Botanically, a banana is a berry. A strawberry is not.

National Geographic
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On Venus, a single day is longer than its year.

NASA
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The number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards exceeds the number of stars in the observable universe.

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Bees build hexagons because they store the most honey with the least wax.

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Pick two random integers. The probability they share no common factor is exactly 6/π².

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An octopus has three hearts and blue blood.

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The decimal 0.999… is not almost 1. It is 1.

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Fireflies in Southeast Asia blink in perfect unison — thousands of oscillators, one rhythm.

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