There’s a gummy bear that weighs 5 pounds and contains over 6000 calories!

The worlds largest gummy bear is hand made in the US and can actually be purchased online, but make sure you love gummy bears before buying this one. Weighing in at 5 pounds, it contains 6120 calories and is equivalent to 1,400 regular sized gummy bears!

Described as the “lion of the candy world,” it costs thirty dollars and can be bought in a variety of flavors from blue raspberry to green apple.

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When you snap your fingers, the noise doesn’t come from your fingers!

The noise you hear when you snap is not from your two fingers like most believe, but actually your finger slapping your palm.

There’s a faint whisking noise from the friction when your fingers rub together, but the sound associated with a snap is from your palm. Rubbing your two fingers together in preparation of a snap builds up force that is released when your finger strikes your palm, making the snapping noise.

Try putting a tissue or padding on your palm and the noise will be substantially diminished!

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If the world were as densely populated as New York City, we would all fit in Texas!

If the entire world population, which is nearly seven billion, was settled as densely as New York City, it could fit in an area equivalent to the size of Texas!

Of course living conditions would be nowhere near close to current US guidelines. As the population continues to grow, overpopulation is beginning to be a problem in places like India and China, which together hold over two billion people. Texas currently has around twenty-five million people living there. Just think what a stretch 7,000,000,000 would be!

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The world’s smallest guitar is the size of a red blood cell!

Developed by Cornell University researchers, this guitar is only ten micrometers long! How big is that? It would take one million micrometers to make one meter! The guitar has six strings, and each string is only about one hundred atoms thick.

Made out of crystalline silicon it demonstrates new technology for a new generation of electromechanical devices. The guitar can actually be played, but it’s so small the sounds produced would be inaudible to the human ear.

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Ever wonder what the mystery to the Bermuda Triangle is? It’s not paranormal!

For over fifty years tourists have always been wary of the infamous Bermuda Triangle after dozens of planes and ships have mysteriously disappeared or crashed.

Scientists were initially stumped by the increasingly popular reports of disappearing vehicles, but many have since concluded that a chief cause is methane hydrate bubbles that cause the water to be unsuitable for ships to sail on.

Scientists also emphasize the fact that although the region is infamous, reports are drastically exaggerated and if looked at with other areas of the ocean crash rates are relatively similar.

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