great holiday read 🐙 - If they were a country, cows would rank as the world’s sixth-largest emitter of methane gas, ahead of Brazil, Japan and Germany. - We breathe roughly 25,000 times a day. - The summit of Mount Everest is about the size of two Ping-Pong tables. - Samsung was founded in 1938 as a shop selling vegetables and dried fish. - Before the Industrial Revolution, the principal sources of noise were thunder, church bells and cannon fire. - George Washington survived smallpox, malaria (six times), diphtheria, tuberculosis (twice) and pneumonia. - The world’s population is expected to start shrinking in about 45 years.