1. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
2. Lightning actually causes thunder by superheating the air, which causes it to expand, creating a shockwave that’s faster than the speed of sound. Voila — thunder!
3. In playing cards, the King of Hearts is the only King without a mustache!
4. The word tattoo comes from the Tahitian word tatau, which means “to mark.”  They believed that tattooing preserved the body’s sacred power.
5. Antarctica is a record-holder among continents — it’s simultaneously the highest, driest and (surprise!) the coldest continent of all.
6. Robocup, an international project promoting robots, says that by 2050 they will have developed a full team of robots that could beat a human football team in the World Cup!
7. A bunch of minerals make the colors in fireworks. For example, strontium in fireworks produces a deep red color while iron fillings make gold sparks.
8. The smallest computer on the planet weighs less than 225 grams and literally fits in the palm of your hand.
9. A study has found that surgeons who played video games for 20 minutes before doing operations were faster and made fewer errors than those who didn’t.
10. Around seven billion years from now, Earth will be vaporized when the sun turns into a bloated red giant.
11. Dust from Africa gets carried by high winds to almost 20,000 feet — and some of it eventually ends up in Florida, USA!
12. The total length of all the blood vessels in your body is 87,000 km. or twice the circumference of the Earth’s equator.
13. You know those plastic things at the end of your shoelaces? They’re called aglets.

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