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