Every year, surgical tools are left in approximately 1,500 patients in the USA. Fatter patients are more prone to having a surgical tool left inside of them due to the additional amount of space in their bodies.

In proportion, if Jupiter were a basketball, then the sun would be the size of the Louisiana Super Dome.

The largest ball of twine in the US weighs over 17,000.

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