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