More than 480 million people have played Monopoly.
Your heart is about the same size as your fist.
Dust from Africa can travel all the way to Florida.
The longest recoreded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
If you fell into a black hole, you'd stretch out like spaghetti.
There are about a quadrillion ants on Earth.
Every year, New York moves 1" further away from England.
A large python can swallow a goat whole.
At least 12 rocks from Mars have landed on Earth.
Crocodiles often eat rocks.
Pigs can get sunburned.
The world's lightest mammal-the bumblebee bat- weighs less than a nickel.
A tiger's skin is striped like it's fur.
Giant tortoises keep growing their whole lives.
Frogs drink through their skin.
Pet hampsters can run up to eight miles a night on a wheel.
A cat has about 20 muscles in each ear.
Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it.
When you see lightning, it is traveling at about 227 million mph.
Horshoe crabs lived before dinosaurs.
About 6,000,000 pounds of space dust settle on earth every year.
Monkeys can go bald in old age, just like humans can.
Dragonflies can see in all directions at once.
The world's heaviest onion weighed more that the head of a man.
Only male toads croak.
You can tell lions apart by the spots at the base of their whiskers.
Opposite sides of dice always add up to seven.
An avarage yawn lasts about six seconds.
The Empire State building was built with ten million bricks.
Eating shrimp can turn white flamingos pink.
Sharks have eight senses when us humans only have five.
Your brain is about three quarters water.
The bahamas once had an undersea post office.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the earth.
A dairy cow produces about 100,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime.
Yo-yos rode on two spaceships.
The oldest human footprint ever found is 350,000 years old.
Blondes have more hair than brunettes.
An oyster can take five years just to make one pearl.
A newborn blue whale can be longer than an adult elephant.
In the summer, the amount of water pouring over Niagra Falls each second could fill 13,00 bathtubs.
It's illegal to sell a haunted house in New York without telling the buyer.
Abracadabra used to be written in a triangular shape to keep away evil spirits.
ABRACADABRA
ABRACADABR
ABRACADAB
ABRACADA
ABRACAD
ABRACA
ABRAC
ABRA
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No words in the dictionary rhyme with orange.
Owls can't move their eyeballs.
Your skeleton has about 300 bones when you are born, but only 206 when you grow up.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.