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Frank Sinatra never formally learned how to read music.
Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
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A group of owls is called a parliament.
Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
More human twins are being born now than ever before.
Pear and apple seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, claimed that "Aliens have contacted humans several times”.
Papua New Guinea is the world's most expensive place to take a shower, with the cost of a typical 8-minute rinse approaching US$3.50. That's 70% of an average person's daily income.
Polar bear fur is actually clear, and their skin is black.
The Eiffel Tower is not fully illuminated 24/7. Since 2013, it shuts off the lights at 1AM to conserve power.
Baby flamingos are born grey, not pink.
Cows have one large stomach that is divided into four compartments to go through the different stages of digestion.
The oldest known customer service complaint —which was about inferior copper ingots— was written on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia 4000 years ago.
A woodpecker’s tongue actually wraps all the way around its brain, protecting it from damage when it’s hammering into a tree.
The man who invented the McDonald's Big Mac burger in 1967, Michael "Jim" Delligatti, died in 2016, aged 98.
A shrimp’s heart is located in its head.
Costa Rica became in 2012 the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport.
Elephants suck on their trunks for comfort.
Dinosaurs didn't roar; they may have mumbled with their mouths shut, research suggests.
Anteaters have no teeth.
Group singing has been scientifically proven to lower stress, relieve anxiety, and elevate endorphins.
Nine-banded armadillos always have quadruplets, and they’re always identical.
The Canadian Province of Alberta has been rat-free for over 50 years.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
Pelota purépcha, is one of many pre-Hispanic games Mexico hopes to revive, like hockey but played with a flaming ball.
A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
Indonesians are the world's shortest people.
Hippos and horses are actually distant relatives.
The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica took Isaac Newton 2 years to write. It was the culmination of more than 20 years of thinking.