What fact amazes you every time you think of it?

All eels in the world, wherever you may catch them, in whatever part of the world, are born in the Sargasso sea.

A person’s belly button contains hundreds of bacterial species.

http://theconversation.com/life-on-us-a-close-up-look-at-the-bugs-that-call-us-home-25754

That there are flat-earth believers.

The majority of people in Iceland (67%) believe in the existence of real life elves!

The vastness of our universe.

The great void is endless in any direction.

The history of Egypt is so long that ancient Egyptians were digging out pyramids of even more ancient Egyptians.

There are just as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as there are real numbers in total.

People actually believe that the Newtown CT shootings were all made up.

People actually are able to abuse animals, children and the elderly.

The fact that people continue to mistake their opinions, beliefs, and personal preferences for facts. ;)

That an Idiot named Trump actually became president.

@dxs is here after being gone so long I forgot how to spell dxs.

I met my doppelganger in boot camp.

No matter what my doctor does, I will never get better.

Apple trees are not indigenous to North America. They were imported by immigrants.

Stegosaurus had two brains. The second one was at their hip.

@KNOWITALL not in mine. Twice a week I grab a steak knife and stab the little buggers!

Genetics.

The best place of the world to do laundry is Hyderabad.

Most of the technological advances mankind has ever known have happened in the past 150 years.

But not necessarily the most impressive. The majority of those in the last century and a half were improvements on already developed ideas.
Somebody figured out soaking garments in urine would bleach them white.
There is evidence of people surviving some sort of brain surgery…
thousands of years ago.
Who invented the wheel, and how did they think of it?
Written language, without which most modern technologies would have never happened.

Lies. Whoever invented lies really started something.

A old spinning hard drive is like a 747 flying at full speed a centimeter off the ground counting every blade of grass. And a particle of cigarette smoke is a boulder.

After taking a genetics class, you can’t help but walk around amazed that most people have ten fingers and ten toes.

I also find it amusing that we hack off the sex organs of plants and gift them to one another.

@raum Flowers?! Haha, cleverly morbid, love it.

@dxs There are just as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as there are real numbers in total.

There are as many real numbers between 1 and 2 as there are from 0 to 1.

There are as many real numbers between 2 and 3 as there are from 0 to 1

Therefore there are more real numbers in total than there are real numbers from 0 to 1.

Voyage 1 & 2. They were launched 42 years ago, in 1977, and they are still transmitting data back!
Just last year V2 made it past our solar system and headed out into interstellar space….still transmitting.

The severity of environmental impact when a single species is removed first became understood when wolves were removed entirely from Yellowstone park. The devastation caused people to see how fragile an environmental balance can be. After that people began to look more closely at natural balance, and what we can do to keep or restore it.

Today my son pointed out that at some point Pi will go through every number combination there is. My SS number, yours, your birthday, phone numbers, you name it! It hurts my brain when I think about it.

e^i*π +1 = 0

@Pinguidchance Amazing fact #2 about sets: Determining how many members are in an infinite set is a lot different than determining how many members are in a finite set.