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The international governing body for chess, FIDE, was founded in 1924 and recognizes titles including Grandmaster.
BASE jumping stands for Buildings, Antennae, Spans (bridges), and Earth (cliffs).
The oldest known musical instruments are bone flutes found in Germany dating to at least 40,000 years ago.
Cuneiform script, used by the Sumerians, is one of the earliest writing systems and used wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
The Mona Lisa has no visible eyebrows — they may have been removed during cleaning, or Leonardo simply left them out.
Artificial neural networks are inspired by, but not modeled closely on, biological neural networks in brains.
Moore's Law observed that transistor density on chips doubles approximately every two years — this held for roughly 50 years.
Miso paste can be aged for up to three years, developing increasingly complex flavors.
Eggs can be stored point-down to stay fresh longer — the yolk stays centered and away from the air cell.
The flavor of food is 80% smell — this is why food tastes bland when you have a stuffy nose.
The world's oldest noodles, found in China, are about 4,000 years old and made from millet.
Dry-aging beef for weeks or months concentrates flavor through enzyme activity and moisture loss.
The fear of running out of coffee has a name: cenosillicaphobia applies specifically to an empty glass, but cafephobia covers coffee avoidance.
The world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, is made from beans that have passed through a civet's digestive system.
The Sahara was a lush, green savanna as recently as 5,000 years ago.
Tectonic plates move at roughly the same speed as fingernails grow — a few centimeters per year.
The continents are still moving and will likely form a new supercontinent called Pangaea Proxima in about 250 million years.
The deepest lake in the world, Lake Baikal, is also the oldest at around 25 million years.
About 71% of Earth's surface is covered by water, but 97.5% of that is saltwater.
Mount Etna in Sicily is Europe's most active volcano and has been erupting continuously for at least 2,700 years.
The world's most precise clocks, optical lattice clocks, lose less than one second every 15 billion years.
The first synthetic dye, mauveine, was accidentally discovered by 18-year-old William Perkin in 1856.
DNA is so tightly packed in a cell nucleus that if stretched out, each cell's DNA would be about 2 meters long.
Mirror neurons fire both when you perform an action and when you observe someone else performing the same action.
At near-light speeds, time dilation means a fast-moving clock ticks slower relative to a stationary one.
The ancient Chinese crossbow, developed over 2,500 years ago, had a trigger mechanism more sophisticated than European models of the same era.
In ancient Athens, citizens could vote to exile someone for 10 years in a process called ostracism.
Ancient Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.
The Great Pyramid of Giza was the world's tallest man-made structure for over 3,800 years.
The Mongol Empire facilitated one of the earliest instances of globalization by connecting East and West through trade.
The Byzantine Empire continued the Roman Empire for nearly 1,000 years after the fall of Rome in 476 AD.
The longest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve, runs from the lower back to the foot.
A full-term pregnancy is typically 280 days, but the embryo's heart begins beating just 22 days after conception.
The human immune system destroys hundreds of potential cancer cells every single day.
Humans are taller in the morning by about half an inch due to spinal discs rehydrating during sleep.
Your nails and hair don't continue to grow after death — the skin dehydrates and pulls back, creating that illusion.
Light entering the eye triggers a signal that reaches the brain in about 13 milliseconds.
Thirst kicks in only after the body is already 1–2% dehydrated.
Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days.
It takes about 12 hours for food to complete its journey through the digestive system.
The human body contains enough fat to make approximately 7 bars of soap.
A yawn lasts an average of 6 seconds and appears to cool the brain.
The femur is the strongest bone in the body and can support up to 30 times a person's body weight.
Teeth are the only part of the human body that cannot repair themselves.
The human body emits a faint bioluminescent light too weak to be seen by the naked eye.
Fingertips have a ridged skin structure unique to each person, formed before birth and unchanged until decomposition.
The human ear can detect sound frequencies from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, but this range narrows with age.
A human sneeze expels air at speeds of up to 100 mph.
Blood vessels in the human body, if laid end to end, would stretch over 60,000 miles.
The gut contains more than 100 million neurons — sometimes called the 'second brain.'