The average human tongue contains 200 less taste sensors than it did a century ago.

Antelopes are the only mammals that mate in the winter.

Charging a cell phone for one hour takes more energy than running a refrigerator for a day.

As a prerequisite for graduation, London’s Oakshire Preparatory School requires students to recite all of Othello from memory.

Nutritionists were baffled by the results of two recent studies, which found broccoli to be roughly equal to celery in nutritional value.

[In what will hopefully be a running feature, The Factual Friday Interview series brings us a new expert every week to discuss a recent topic of interest. This week we are proud to have celebrated Nigerian musicologist Dr. Bola sim Bola as our inaugural guest.]
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In 1993, a team of Dutch archeologists discovered the fossilized remains of an albino wooly mammoth colony.

Seventy percent of neurologists are left-handed.

The fastest mid-size animal, the jackal can reach speeds of up 17 miles per hour.

The word “coupon” is derived from the 13th century middle Bulgarian phrase cpreaun, which literally translates to “haggle papers.”