★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.★A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.★There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.