Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west.
Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.
Bacteria, the tiniest free-living cells, are so small that a single drop of liquid contains as many as 50 million of them.
If you stand in the bottom of a well, you would be able to see the stars even in the daytime.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
If the world were tilted one degree more either way, the planet would not be habitable because the area around the equator would be too hot and the poles would be too cold.
The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
