Sometimes it seems like you?ve seen so much in life that nothing will be able to surprise you anymore. Then you accidentally hear someone mention something amazing, like the fact that hippopotamus milk is pink. This is how the following facts will leave you speechless.

1. Honey never breaks down. Not after a year, not after two - never.

2. Jellyfish Turritopsis Nutricula is the only organism on Earth that is biologically immortal.

3. The heart of a blue whale is so massive that a human being can swim through its arteries. However, the throat of this whale is no larger than a pan.

4. The ratio of people and ants in the world is such that for every person in the world there are about 1.6 million ants. The total weight of all these ants is equal to the combined weight of the human population in the world.

5. An octopus has three hearts.

6. Originally, Feng shui was the art of choosing a suitable place for a grave.

7. In Saturn and Jupiter, rain has diamond composition.

8. There are ten times more bacteria in the human body than there are cells.

9. Frankenstein was the name of the creator and not the monster.

10. Mustaches have 27,000 taste glands. This is four times more than what human beings have.

11. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

12. In Cyprus, Santa Claus is called Basil.

13. No one has managed to tame an African elephant.

14. Wrinkles that appear on the skin of your hands (after taking a bath) occur because the body realizes that the environment can be slippery and so the skin on the hands wrinkles in order to make it easier to recognize the smooth surfaces.

15. The hole between the nose and the upper lip is called the filtrum and is a reminiscent of the time spent in the mother?s womb. Both sides of the face develop independently of each other and come to meet in the middle of your face, creating the filter. When these two parts fail to melt properly, which happens once in 750 births, then we have cleft palate (upper lip separation).

16. A woman's heart beats faster, but a man's heart is bigger.

Source: Bright Side