You’re born with 300 bones, when you’re grown up you end up with 260. As you get older some of your small bones grow together into big ones.
The two most famous actors who portrayed the “Marlboro Man” in the cigarette ads died of lung cancer.
A “lost world” exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.
The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.
The brain is soft and gelatinous – its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.