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Here are a few of my favorite facts:
- There is a "law of urination": all mammals empty their bladders over the same duration. This is because bladder retention is proportional to the
log(size) + constant, but the constant offsets the curve so far that it’s relatively flat across the size of mammal bladders. - Mercury’s day is twice as long as its year: it rotates so slowly on its own axis, that a full rotation is about equal to two of its orbits of the Sun.
- The first human-made object on the moon was a cannonball full of flag pins.
- John Keats loved to attend chemistry lectures to “increase his stock of metaphors”.
- Whale blubber was used as lubricant on the Apollo 11 landing module.
- Esperanto and Modern Hebrew were invented just a village away from one another in the Pale of Settlement.