★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★The moon has moonquakes.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★An octopus has nine brains.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★A group of frogs is called an army.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Rats laugh when tickled.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.

★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.★Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★Horses physically cannot vomit.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.★A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.★Dolphins have names for each other.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.★A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★The moon has moonquakes.★A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★A shrimp's heart is located in its head.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Goldfish can recognize human faces.★The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.★A hippo's sweat is pink.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.★A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★An octopus has nine brains.★It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.★A flock of crows is known as a murder.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Humans are the only animals that blush.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★A group of frogs is called an army.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★Rats laugh when tickled.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.★A mosquito has 47 teeth.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.★Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.

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How to play Pixel painter

Pick a colour from the palette and tap a cell on the grid to fill it. Tap and drag to paint a line. Use the eraser to clear cells, undo to step back through recent actions, and the 16 or 32 buttons to switch grid size. When you are happy with your art, tap save to download a PNG. Clear wipes the canvas if you want to start over.

Tips

Start with the outline in dark colours, fill with lighter shades after
Use only three or four colours for a clean retro look
Use undo freely, it remembers your last 30 actions
Save often, the back button does not bring your art back

About Pixel painter

Pixel art started as a necessity. Early home computers and consoles like the Commodore 64 and the NES had so few colours and pixels that artists invented entire styles to make every block count. The aesthetic stuck around long after hardware caught up because it is simply gorgeous. Our painter mirrors the old workflow: a grid, a tight palette, an eraser and an undo stack. Whip up a 16 by 16 sprite in five minutes and save the PNG.

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