★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.
★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.★Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.★The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.