★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.
★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.★The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.