★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★The moon has moonquakes.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.
★A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.★The moon has moonquakes.★Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.★The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.★A group of ferrets is called a business.★Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.