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- DNA Is Surprisingly Fragile
- Cows Have Best Friends
- The Antikythera Mechanism Predates Computers by 2,000 Years
- The Longest Solo Flight Was Nine Days Without Refueling
- Hummingbird Hearts Beat Up to 1,260 Times a Minute
- The Word 'Set' Has Over 430 Definitions
- Iceland Has a Phone App to Avoid Dating Relatives
- Bees Recognize Human Faces
- The Mongols Mailed Letters Via Pony Express 700 Years Before America
- Your Brain Generates Enough Electricity to Power a Light Bulb
- Sea Otters Hold Hands While They Sleep
- We Don't Know Why We Dream
- Goldfish Have a Memory Far Longer Than Three Seconds
- The Inventor of the Stop Sign Is Unknown
- Lobsters Don't Really Age
- Bhutan Measures Gross National Happiness
- Nearly Half the World's Population Has Watched a Cricket World Cup Match
- A Group of Flamingos Is Called a Flamboyance
- Some Bees Get Addicted to Caffeine
- The National Animal of Scotland Is the Unicorn
- The Aztecs Played a Game Where the Losers Were Sacrificed
- The Mystery of the Wow! Signal
- The Average Cumulus Cloud Floats Because Its Mass Is Spread So Thin
- Wombat Poop Is Cube-Shaped
- The Ig Nobel Prize Honors Research That 'Makes You Laugh, Then Think'
- Some Turtles Breathe Through Their Butts
- Diamonds Rain on Neptune and Uranus
- Some Mantis Shrimp Can See Colors Humans Cannot Imagine
- Stonehenge Was Built Without Wheels or Metal Tools
- Pirates Wore Eye Patches to See in the Dark
- Someone Patented a Hat That Tips Itself
- Bubble Wrap Was Invented as Wallpaper
- Tea Bags Were Invented by Accident
- A Cloud Can Weigh More Than a Million Pounds
- There Is a Fungus That Turns Ants into Zombies
- The Eiffel Tower Grows Six Inches in Summer
- There's a Town in Norway Where the Sun Doesn't Set for 76 Days
- Ben Franklin Proposed the Turkey as the National Bird
- The Apollo 11 Computer Had Less Power Than a Modern Calculator
- There Is a Patent for Time Travel
- Super Glue Was Discovered While Trying to Make Gun Sights
- Hot Water Can Freeze Faster Than Cold Water
- Someone Once Lived in an Airport for 18 Years
- The Origin of Life Is Still Unsolved
- Beavers Can Build Dams You Can See From Space
- The 'Forbidden City' Has Almost Exactly 9,999 Rooms
- The Highest Free-Fall Ever Was From the Edge of Space
- There's a Plant That Smells Like Rotting Flesh
- Pigeons Can Distinguish Picasso From Monet
- The Longest Distance Ever Covered by a Cat
- Plants Make a Faint Clicking Sound Under Stress
- Sunflowers Track the Sun Across the Sky
- The First Email Was Sent in 1971
- A Roman Emperor Made His Horse a Senator
- The Frisbee Was Inspired by Pie Tins
- Coca-Cola's Marketing Helped Create the Modern Santa
- The Coca-Cola Recipe Used to Contain Cocaine
- The Pet Rock Made Its Inventor Millions
- The Dancing Plague of 1518
- Ancient Egyptians Used Honey as a Wound Dressing
- The Universe Has a Background Temperature
- There Is a Real Scientific Paper Titled 'The Pig as an Aircraft'
- Octopuses Have Three Hearts and Blue Blood
- The Internet Weighs About the Same as a Strawberry
- The Slinky Was Originally a Naval Instrument
- The Bermuda Triangle Probably Isn't Magic
- The First Computer Bug Was a Real Bug
- The Inventor of the Pringles Can Is Buried in One
- Cows Produce More Milk When They Listen to Music
- The World's Smallest Park Is Two Feet Wide
- Play-Doh Was Originally a Wallpaper Cleaner
- The Shortest War in History Lasted 38 Minutes
- There's a Lake in Australia That's Naturally Bright Pink
- Napoleon Was Once Attacked by a Horde of Rabbits
- Some Slime Molds Can Solve Mazes
- Tardigrades Can Survive in Space
- Tug of War Was an Olympic Sport
- There's a Research Paper About the Physics of Falling Toast
- Medieval Europeans Believed Sneezes Released the Soul
- Japan Has More Vending Machines Per Person Than Anywhere Else
- Scotland Once Had Its Own Failed Empire
- Pope Gregory IX Declared War on Cats
- The Voynich Manuscript Has Never Been Deciphered
- The Library of Alexandria Burned Multiple Times
- Saturn Would Float in Water
- Sharks Existed Before Trees
- Nobody Knows Why Humans Yawn
- A Group of Crows Is Called a Murder. Nobody Knows Exactly Why
- An Octopus Has Three Times as Many Neurons in Its Arms as Its Head
- The Lost Roman Legion
- The Longest Hair Ever Recorded Was Over 18 Feet
- Some Fish Change Sex Throughout Their Lives
- The Heart of a Blue Whale Is the Size of a Small Car
- The Largest Cup of Coffee Ever Brewed Held 22,739 Liters
- Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Are Not
- Microwave Ovens Were Discovered Because a Chocolate Bar Melted
- Ducks Have Regional Accents
- Quantum Particles Can Affect Each Other Across Vast Distances
- Cleopatra Lived Closer to the iPhone Than to the Great Pyramid
- Albert Einstein Was Offered the Presidency of Israel
- Ireland Has No Snakes Because They Were Never There
- WD-40 Took 40 Tries to Get Right
- The Largest Snowflake Was 15 Inches Wide
- There's a 'Door to Hell' That Has Been Burning Since 1971
- Sound Travels Four Times Faster in Water
- Why Cats Purr Is Still a Mystery
- There Are More Trees on Earth Than Stars in the Milky Way
- Scientists Once Trained Pigeons to Pilot Missiles
- Light Can Be Slowed to a Standstill in a Lab
- A Researcher Once Lived With Dolphins for Ten Weeks
- The Letter 'E' Is the Most Common in English
- A Day on Venus Is Longer Than Its Year
- An Average Human Body Contains Enough Iron to Make a Small Nail
- The First Vending Machine Sold Holy Water
- There's a Patent for Combing Hair Over Bald Spots
- There Is a 'Bone Wars' Period in Paleontology
- Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing
- Antarctica Has Its Own Time Zone — Sort Of
- There's a Patent for a 'Force Sensitive Touch Screen' Cat
- There's a Genuine Scientific Field Studying Beard Microbes
- There's a Patent for an Anti-Eating Face Mask
- The Tunguska Event Flattened a Forest in 1908
- There Are More Possible Chess Games Than Atoms in the Observable Universe
- Bananas Are Slightly Radioactive
- Ketchup Was Once Sold as Medicine
- The Sodder Children Disappearance
- The Longest Hiccup Attack Lasted 68 Years
- Honey Never Spoils
- The Largest Living Organism Is a Mushroom
- The Dyatlov Pass Incident
- Romans Used Crushed Mouse Brains as Toothpaste
- Velcro Was Inspired by Burrs Stuck to a Dog
- The Most Expensive Pizza Costs Over $12,000
- There Is Enough Gold in the Ocean to Give Everyone Nine Pounds
- Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel by Weight
- Bacteria Can Communicate with Each Other
- The First Olympic Games Had Only One Event
- The Mary Celeste Was Found Abandoned at Sea
- The Longest Concert Ever Played Was 639 Years Long
- Rats Can Be Tickled — and They Laugh
- The Tallest Sandcastle Ever Was Over 70 Feet High
- There Are Glaciers Made of Salt
- Sloths Can Hold Their Breath Longer Than Dolphins
- We Still Don't Know What Causes Ball Lightning
- Vikings Used a Sunstone to Navigate
- Cats Have Been Listed as Co-Authors on Physics Papers
- Pluto Has Possible Underground Oceans
- Australia Once Lost a War Against Emus
- The World's Longest Fingernails Were Over 30 Feet Combined
- The Loudest Sound in Recorded History Was Heard 3,000 Miles Away