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The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.
Jupiter spins so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours.
Hawaii has its own time zone.
The Valley of Square Trees in Panama is the only known place in the world where trees have rectangular trunks.
Nearly 9,000 people injure themselves with a toothpick each year.
The Library of Congress has 600 miles of shelves.
Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.
A flock of crows is known as a murder.
Africa is divided into more countries than any other continent.
Nutmeg is actually poisonous when ingested in large amounts.
Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
A crocodile cannot move its tongue.
During the Boston Tea Party, 342 chests of tea were thrown into the harbor.
The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Between 1979 and 1999, the planet Neptune was farther from the Sun than Pluto. This won't happen again until 2227.
The largest known prime number has 17,425,170 digits. That biggest prime number is 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times, minus 1.
Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not
The bumblebee bat is one of the the smallest mammal on Earth. It weighs less than a penny.
A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
Neckties were first worn in Croatia, which is why they were called cravats.
Identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints. You can’t blame your crimes on your twin, after all. This is because environmental factors during development in the womb (umbilical cord length, position in the womb, and the rate of finger growth) affect your fingerprint.
Benjamin Franklin invented flippers.
On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime.