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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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Despite popular belief, wooden cutting boards are actually safer than plastic. Studies show over 99% of bacteria on wood die within 3 minutes, while plastic boards can harbour and grow bacteria in knife grooves.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

The shortest and tallest players in NBA history - Muggsy Bogues (5'3") and Manute Bol (7'7") -played on the same team, the Washington Bullets, during the 1987/88 season.

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, you’ve traveled approximately 2,200 miles through space relative to the cosmic background radiation.

A 1995 NASA study on pilots found that a 26-minute in-flight nap led to up to a 54% increase in alertness and a 34% improvement in job performance.

A global study of nearly 6,000 people found that 'cool' personality types are consistent across cultures - typically seen as extraverted, adventurous, powerful, and independent.

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