20 More Awesome (but Useless) Facts

Editor's Note: Check out the first list of amazing facts here

1. Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
2. Sleeping through winter is hibernation, while sleeping through summer is estivation.
3. The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
4. Outer space is only an hours drive away, if you could drive straight up.
5. "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo," is a grammatically correct sentence, using three different definitions for the word, "buffalo."
6. There are more combinations of a deck of playing cards than there have been seconds since the beginning of time as we know it.
7.  Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you as a shark is.
8.  A Venus day is longer than a Venus year.'
9. The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.
10. Australia has over 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for over 27 years!
11. The reason the taste of artificial banana flavoring and artificial banana flavored products doesn’t taste like bananas is because it is based on a type of banana that was wiped out by a plague in the 1950’s.'
12. In the film Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, every single one of the clone troopers was produced using CGI effects.
13. In China, 2013, scientists were able to grow a human tooth from scratch using stem cells taken from urine.
14. The word ‘quarantine’ derives from the Venetian dialect of Italian and the words ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning ‘forty days’. This is because when it was discovered that ships were infested with plague-carrying rats they were made to sit at anchor outside Venice’s city walls for forty days before coming ashore.
15. Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.
16. In a survival situation if you were to drink seawater it would rapidly dehydrate you and soon lead to your death. However, it is vastly less harmful to eat frozen seawater. This is because it contains a tenth the amount of salt as its liquid form, due to the fact that the salt is separated from the water when freezing as it does not fit into the crystalline structure of ice.
17. When written down, the word ‘almost’ is the longest word in the English language to have all of its letters in alphabetical order.
18. When people are struck by lightening the mark that appears on their afflicted area afterwards looks like an intricately detailed silhouette of a fern tree and is known as ‘lightening tree’ or sometimes ‘lightening flower’. This occurs due to delicate capillaries rupturing beneath the skin from the shock of the electrical discharge.
19. The world’s biggest ever recorded turtle was a Leatherback Turtle that washed up Harlech Beach, Wales, in 1988. It was estimated to be 100 years old, and was almost 9 foot in length weighing a tumultuous 2,016 lbs!
20. 2013 was the first year since 1987 to feature four different numbers.