★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The moon has moonquakes.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.
★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.★Dolphins have names for each other.★Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.★The moon has moonquakes.★Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.★Snakes can help predict earthquakes.★The first computer mouse was made of wood.★The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.★A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.★Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.