★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.
★Octopuses can taste with their arms.★The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.★A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.★The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.★Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.★Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.★Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.★We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.★The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.★Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.★If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.★The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.★Butterflies taste with their feet.★A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.★Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.★Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.★The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.