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