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Across a full human pregnancy, the extra energy cost to create a baby is estimated at around 50,000 calories - roughly 300 extra calories a day.

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Your nose is always in your field of vision, but your brain edits it out — a process called unconscious selective attention.

The tennis brand Wilson began as part of a meatpacking company seeking uses for animal by-products: its first racket strings were made from cow intestines.

Every breath you take almost certainly contains molecules from Julius Caesar’s last breath: it held ~10²² molecules, and after 2,000 years of mixing, the odds you inhale at least one are over 99%.

McDonald's once successfully engineered bubblegum flavoured broccoli to encourage kids to eat more vegetables.

Steven Spielberg is the most thanked person in Oscar acceptance speeches - mentioned more often than family, friends, or even God.

One 18-inch pizza contains more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas - about 12.5% more. (Area: 18" = π·9² = 81π; two 12" = 2×(π·6²) = 72π.)

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