Watermelons can cost up to $100 in Japan.
The sun’s total lifetime as a star capable of maintaining a life-bearing Earth is about 11 billion years. Nearly half that time has passed.
In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
The city of Tokyo was originally called Edo.
Because radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second and sound waves saunter at 700 miles per hour, a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 13,000 miles away than it can be heard at the back of the room in which it originated.
