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