Giraffes only sleep about 30 minutes a day—broken into short naps.

Even rest is a luxury in the wild.

#animals

The world’s oldest known living tree is over 9,500 years old.

It’s a clonal spruce in Sweden called “Old Tjikko.”

#plants #history

The Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing.

Millions of years ago, a day was only 22 hours long.

#science #space

Multitasking lowers productivity by up to 40%.
Your brain works best when focused on one task at a time.

#psychology

Some frogs can survive being frozen.

They thaw out in spring and continue living like nothing happened.

#weird #animals

Neurons in your brain fire faster than the speed of light in fiber optic cables.

Your mind is a miracle of speed.

#science

The scent of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.

What smells fresh to us is a cry for help.

#plants #weird

“You become what you repeat.”

Habits are your real identity, not goals.

#mindset

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body attached at just one end.

It’s small, strong, and completely unique.

#knowledge

If it takes less than 2 minutes, do it now.

This rule kills procrastination before it starts.

#tips

One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 6 billion tons.

That’s the mass of a mountain compressed into a sugar cube.

#space #science

“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the same place next year.”

Comfort zones slowly kill dreams.

#motivation