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

Space Cat

A green-on-black mission control terminal with a cat on the pad. It shows the next real rocket launch anywhere on Earth, the live countdown, the weather at the pad and whether the mission is go. Type sudo launch if you cannot wait and it fires one off in ASCII for you.

URL: https://spacecat.watch/

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