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Fascinating (and Totally Random) Facts You Probably Didn’t Know

• Believe it or not, more people are killed by donkeys each year than in plane crashes.

• There’s no word in the English language that rhymes with “month.”

• Nutmeg is deadly if injected directly into the bloodstream.

• On average, people fear spiders more than death itself.

• One reason marijuana became illegal? Cotton growers in the 1930s saw hemp as competition and lobbied against it.

• Only one person in two billion will live to see their 116th birthday.

• Your eyes stay the same size from birth, but your nose and ears never stop growing.

• Right-handed people, on average, live nine years longer than left-handed folks.

• Shakespeare invented words like “assassination” and “bump.”

• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

• Starfish don’t have brains.

• “Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

• Drunk ants always fall on their right side.

• The average person unknowingly eats eight spiders in their lifetime—while asleep.

• Catfish have over 27,000 taste buds.

• The Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise liner moves just six inches for every gallon of diesel it burns.

Crazy, right? The world is full of bizarre, mind-bending facts that make you see everyday life in a whole new way.