Replacing an electric water heater with a solar model can reduce water heat costs by 50 to 80 percent every year - and over the 20-year life of the equipment, more than 50 tons of carbon dioxide emissions will be displaced.
A single tree in a rainforest can be home to thousands of different creatures.
All clams start out as males; about half decide to become females at some point in their lives.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Talking about synchronicity increases synchronicity
Half of all living things live on 6% of the land on the planet, the rain forest. No word on how much this fact changes everyday, but it's safe to say it's an estimate.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times per year. (6-8 times per day)
People spend at least 3 years of their lives on the toilet.
Seven million cell phones are dropped in the toilet per year.
Americans use a lot more toilet paper than any other country. (7 sheets on average)
People have flushed down the toilet: goldfish, false teeth, socks, underwear, bras, shirts, shoes, mice, hamsters, toy cars, action figures, Barbies, toothbrushes, and whole rolls of toliet paper.
Most toilets flush on an E-flat note.
10,000 times you have to change a baby's diaper until it learns how to go to the bathroom itself.
Men spend 140 days of his life shaving.
Brushing your teeth with the water on wastes 5 gallons of water. Shaving with the water on wastes 15 to 20 gallons.
Females takes 3 times longer than males in the bathroom.
There is a two-foot long bird called the Kea. The kea lives in New Zealand and just loves to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
The 1998 Golden Globe award for Best Picture went to "Saving Private Ryan" beating out favorites such as "Shakespeare in Love" (voted Best Picture in the Academy Awards), "Life is beautiful," & "There's something about Mary"
In 1862, to support the Civil War, Congress enacted the nation's first income tax law. Congress eliminated the income tax in 1872 and it had a short-lived revival in 1894 and 1895.
In 1913 the income tax was brought back and became a permanent part of American life. It provided a seemingly unlimited source of funds to finance ever-growing government, and it gave the government an excuse to pry into every aspect of your life.
The polar bears live only in the Arctic at the North Pole and penguins live only in the Antarctic at the South Pole.
China's Terracotta Army is thousands of life-size clay soldiers buried with the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Farmers digging a well discovered it by accident in 1974.
Japan consistently ranks at or near the top of the world for life expectancy, at around 84 years.
French Bulldogs are terrible swimmers. Their heavy front ends, short legs, and flat faces make it hard for them to stay afloat, so a Frenchie near a pool should ideally wear a dog life jacket.
The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, run by the Morris Animal Foundation, has followed more than 3,000 Golden Retrievers over their whole lives to understand why the breed has such high cancer rates. Cancer is the leading cause of death in Goldens.
Most Bulldogs can't swim well because their heavy, front-loaded bodies, short legs, and flat faces make it hard to stay afloat. Pools are a real drowning risk for them without supervision or a life jacket.
Lions are the only truly social big cats. They live in groups called prides, usually made up of related females, their cubs, and a few males.
The Amazon river dolphin, or boto, can turn bright pink, especially older males, and it lives in the freshwater rivers of South America.
Horses basically can't vomit because of a strong muscle valve at the entrance to the stomach, which is why stomach problems like colic can become life-threatening for them.
The Greenland shark is the longest-living vertebrate known. A 2016 study estimated one was at least 272 years old and possibly close to 400.
In 1942, Anne Miller became the first American civilian saved by penicillin when it cured her of a life-threatening infection.
A 2024 study led by the World Health Organization estimated that vaccines have saved about 154 million lives over the past 50 years.
The "Seinfeld" character Kramer was based on Kenny Kramer, Larry David's real-life neighbor, who later ran "Seinfeld" reality bus tours in New York.
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who played Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, were married in real life.
CBS created a real website for Barney Stinson's blog.
Carbon-14 dating estimates the age of once-living things by measuring how much radioactive carbon-14 is left. Its half-life is about 5,730 years.
Uranium-238 has a half-life of about 4.5 billion years, about the age of Earth.
In 1950, Pope Pius XII officially declared the Assumption, the Catholic belief that Mary was taken body and soul into heaven at the end of her life.
Saint Patrick wrote the "Confessio," a short account of his life.
Stephen King lives in Bangor, Maine, and many of his books are set in Maine.
Vincent van Gogh is traditionally said to have sold only one painting during his lifetime, "The Red Vineyard."
Frida Kahlo began painting seriously while recovering from a bus accident she was in at age 18.
In 1949, Life magazine asked whether Jackson Pollock was the greatest living painter in the US.
The "immortal jellyfish" can turn back into an earlier life stage when it's stressed, possibly letting it avoid dying of old age.
In some orca populations, sons stay with their mothers for life.
Swami Sivananda founded the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh in 1936.
In 1633, Galileo was put on trial by the Catholic Church for supporting the idea that Earth orbits the Sun, and he spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
Galileo went blind late in life.
The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old, roughly halfway through its life.
In 2020, scientists reported phosphine in Venus's clouds as a possible sign of life, but the finding has been heavily debated.
Louis Pasteur used swan-neck flasks to disprove the idea that life appears spontaneously.
In 1847, Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis showed that handwashing reduced deaths among new mothers, but many doctors rejected his idea.
One organ donor can save up to eight lives.