Rinconada, Peru is the world’s highest elevated city at 16,732 ft above sea level and its economy is based around a gold mine. The mine operates on a unique system where employees work for 30 days without payment, and on the 31st day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry.

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Steve Jobs suffered from compunophobia - a fear of buttons and buttons on clothing.

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Bruce Lee was a big Muhammad Ali fan and used to watch his fights on film obsessively.

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🧂 Adding salt and sugar to your food can speed up the body's aging process. This is because excess salt and sugar can lead to increased levels of inflammation in the body, which in turn can contribute to premature cellular aging. Studies also show that regularly consuming large amounts of salt and sugar can have a negative impact on the skin, accelerating the formation of wrinkles and loss of elasticity.

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**Bone weight is only 15% of total body weight.

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Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of TETRIS (1984) did not receive any royalties from one of the most popular video game titles until 1996 as the rights were owned by his employer, the Soviet government.

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:🏝 :Nauru is the only state without an official capital.

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Putting some dry tea bags in smelly running shoes or a smelly bag when not in use will absorb the musky scents while imparting some of their own more pleasant aroma.

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Penguin shifter is the rarest profession in the world.

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The highest temperature ever set by humans was produced in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. It was close to 10 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, over 370,000 times the temperature of the sun’s core.

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Drowning in salt water is different than drowning in freshwater. It takes longer, as salt water draws blood from the cells into the lungs, which makes you drown in your own blood.

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:🦁 :Lions, despite their huge teeth, do not chew their food but swallow large chunks of meat.

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The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes. They’re called Blaschko’s Lines, and they cover the body from head to toe. We just can’t see them.

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There are brain-eating amoebas.

- They inhabit fresh water and can enter the body through the nose, then proceed to consume brain tissue.

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Eating dates in the last 4 weeks before labour helps with birth.

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Termites, although behaving like ants, are actually evolved cockroaches.

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