“Bears in Yellowstone eat around 300,000 moths a month.”
and we decided to round up the best answers:
1.
“Every element heavier than lithium had to be created in the core of a star.
Every element heavier than iron had to be created by a supernova.”
“Benford’s Law.
How large datasets of numbers behave in very predictable ways.
It’s one of the easiest ways to detect if a company is cooking its books.”
u/hybridaaroncarroll
3.
Same constellations and all, that’s how unfathomably far away the stars are compared to the planets."
“However, there’s one exception.
That’s how unfathomably far Pluto is as well.”
u/javier_aeoa
4.
“The human brain, and thus our intelligence, has been largely unchanged for millennia.
After getting over the mother of all culture shocks and learning the language.”
u/The_Pastmaster
6.
“The difference between a million and a billion.
A million seconds is about 11 days, a billion seconds is about 31.5 YEARS.”
u/Iwouldlikeadairycow
7. u/ToastMarmaladeCoffee
8.
“All humans share 99.9% of the same DNA.
The .1% is what makes us different.”
u/Ambitious-Piccolo843
10.
“The pots of honey found by archaeologists in the Egyptian pyramids are still edible.”
u/Vanzin09
11.
“University of Cambridge is 200 years older than the Aztec empire.”
“Wombats poop in cube shapes and stack them to mark their territory.”
u/AggravatingSurvey905
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“There are parts of Scotland so ancient that they predate the dinosaurs.”
u/PureDeidBrilliant
14.
Every shuffle after the first seven or so is a combination that almost certainly has never existed before."
u/THElaytox
16.
“At one point the human population was between 1,000 and 10,000 we cameso close to going extinct.”
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