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