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