A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
140
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
447
When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
423
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
102
Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
129
There are 635,013,559,599 possible hands in a game of bridge.
39
The scent of women’s tears temporarily reduces sexual arousal and testosterone production in men.
12
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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