Interesting Facts - Page 42

When people get a kidney transplant, the original kidney is not generally removed, leaving the recipient with three (or four) kidneys

About 14% of people are born without the palmaris longus tendon in their forearm. As the tendon does not serve a purpose in humans, it is often used if a patient needs a tendon graft in another part of their body. Go here to see if you have them.

Quetzalcoatlus was possibly the largest animal to ever fly. A pterosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous, it had a wingspan of over 10 meters in length.

There are currently more people living in the metro area of Orlando, Florida then there were in the entirety of England during the reign of Henry VIII.

During WWII, Japan launched over 9000 balloons with incendiary bombs attached to them. They hoped that the bombs would cross the Pacific to the United States, start massive forest fires, and sow panic. The project was a colossal failure. However, in 1945, one balloon did kill six picnickers in Oregon. Those six people were the only deaths caused by enemy action in the continental U.S. during WWII.