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The world's sign languages, side by side. A fascinating look at how different cultures 'speak' with their hands.
★Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.★The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.★Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.★The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.★The moon has moonquakes.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.★A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.★A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.★Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.★A group of owls is called a parliament.★Rats laugh when tickled.★A group of porcupines is called a prickle.★The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.★Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
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