★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★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.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.
★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★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.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.