★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.
★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.★The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.★A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.★It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.