PHDid you know?
1. Sharks are older than trees. Sharks have existed for ∼400 million years. Trees showed up ∼350 million years ago.
2. Your body has more bacteria cells than human cells. You’re technically 57% microbe.
3. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to spin once, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
4. There’s enough gold in Earth’s core to coat the entire surface of the planet to a depth of 1.5 feet. We just can’t get to it.
5. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Teaching started at Oxford around 1096, while Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325
6. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
7. A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance". And they’re naturally white — they turn pink from eating shrimp and algae.
8. If you shuffle a standard deck of cards, you’ve probably created an order that has never existed before in the history of the universe. There are 52! = 8×10^67 possible combinations
9. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramids. Pyramids: 2560 BC. Cleopatra: 30 BC. iPhone: 2007.
10. Octopuses have 3 hearts, blue blood, and can taste with their arms. Two heart pump blood through the gills, one pumps it through the body.
1. Sharks are older than trees. Sharks have existed for ∼400 million years. Trees showed up ∼350 million years ago.
2. Your body has more bacteria cells than human cells. You’re technically 57% microbe.
3. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to spin once, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun.
4. There’s enough gold in Earth’s core to coat the entire surface of the planet to a depth of 1.5 feet. We just can’t get to it.
5. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Teaching started at Oxford around 1096, while Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325
6. The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar on August 27, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
7. A group of flamingos is called a "flamboyance". And they’re naturally white — they turn pink from eating shrimp and algae.
8. If you shuffle a standard deck of cards, you’ve probably created an order that has never existed before in the history of the universe. There are 52! = 8×10^67 possible combinations
9. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramids. Pyramids: 2560 BC. Cleopatra: 30 BC. iPhone: 2007.
10. Octopuses have 3 hearts, blue blood, and can taste with their arms. Two heart pump blood through the gills, one pumps it through the body.