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

Sims & sandboxes

Little worlds that run themselves

Set the rules, drop the sand, let go. No goals, no losing, just little worlds that keep running after you stop touching them. You play god, the browser does the work.