★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.
★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★Dolphins sleep with one eye open.★The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★A snail can sleep for three years straight.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.