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Superheated plasma tornadoes near the sun's surface hit speeds of up to 190,000 miles per hour.

Venice is not only sinking again, it's also tilting eastward.

Flowers have a hard-wired response to warmth that's in their genes.

The Marianas Trench in the western Pacific Ocean is nearly 7 Grand Canyons deep.

The height of Mount Everest is disputed because of its snow cover.

Just one person in a room adds 37 million bacteria to the air every hour.

Adolph Hitler most likely fathered a son with a French girl while stationed in France during WWI.

St. Patrick did not banish all the snakes from Ireland, contrary to popular legend.

Male bottlenose dolphins are sometimes bisexual, sometimes exclusively homosexual.

Some heart transplant recipients start craving things the heart's previous owner liked.

Rhode Island and New York are tied for the least religious states.

Having high levels of testosterone can weaken a man's immune system.

The oldest planets known are nearly 13 billion years old and shouldn't exist.

Astronauts who spend more than a month in space develop problems with their eyes.

The Mars rover "Curiosity" has a laser on board to zap rocks.

Mars' atmosphere gets "blown" into space by the solar wind.

Ashton Kutcher will be Virgin Galactic's 500th space tourist.

Mercury's deepest craters probably contain water ice.

The biggest black holes shouldn't exist; there's not enough time in the Universe for them to gain so much mass.

The fastest land-based robot is inspired by a cheetah and runs 18 miles per hour.

A violin in Japan has strings made from spider silk.

JP Morgan Chase's Palladium Card costs $1,000 to make and requires a $25 million deposit with the bank.

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The farthest a tornado has blown a person was about a mile in Kickapoo, Kan on May 1, 1930.

Rhino horn is not ivory; the most important source of ivory is elephants.

The Medici Venus sculpture now bare once had red lipstick and golden hair.

The relatively small Halley's comet weighs as much as 665 Empire State Buildings.

A baby was born in California with 12 fingers and 12 toes all perfectly functional.

1 out of 500 humans are born with extra fingers or toes.

A typical asteroid like Eros contains $20 trillion in rare minerals.

More devices with the Mac-based iOS software were sold in 2011 (156 million) than all the Macs ever sold (122 million).

Your chance of dying doubles every eight years no matter how old you are.

The Rapunzel Number is a mathematical formula that explains the physics of a ponytail.

The tiny songbird called the northern wheatear migrates 9,000 miles from the Arctic to Africa.

A cockroach has been turned into a fuel cell by tapping into its own body chemistry for electricity.

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A massive surge of adrenaline from deep grief can bring on a fatal heart attack.

A massive surge of adrenaline from deep grief can bring on a fatal heart attack.

Military tech firm Chamtech has invented a way to spray thousands of nanocapacitors onto any surface creating spray-on Wi-Fi.

As of Feb. 14 the world's smallest valentine is 5 nanometers across and made from gold atoms.

There is no evidence that the Vikings had horns on their helmets.

A great white shark can produce as many pups in one litter as a manta ray might in a lifetime.

In space flames burn like blobs instead of teardrops.

You can start a fire with ice by directing sunlight through the ice onto dry wood shavings.

African lions have started to behave differently because of a deep fear of humans.

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