[Fun] Facts That Will Make You Say WOW!

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• Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
  

There's a species of animal the called the binturong (Arctictis binturong) that smells like buttered popcorn. Also called the bearcat, the binturong is neither a bear nor a cat, but a relative to polecats.

If you drop a raisin into a glass of (freshly poured) champagne,  it'll continuously bounce back and forth from the top of the glass to the bottom of it.

Tears you cry when you're upset actually contain a hormone that's a natural painkiller. Your body releases this hormone (called leucine enkephalin) when you're under stress. So if you ever feel like you need to just sit and have a good cry, your body is just trying to comfort itself.

Marilyn Monroe had an IQ of 163.
Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160.

Somewhat related to the above is choreomania. Also called dancing mania, dancing plague, St. John's Dance and St. Vitus's Dance, choreomania was the sudden onset of erratic dancing that would sometimes "infect" thousands of people at a time, making them dance erratically, sometimes to the point of death. This "plague" occured between the 14th and 17th centuries C.E., and the cause is still generally unknown.