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