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89 Weird Facts That Will Keep You Amused and Curious!

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00:00:00 Frogs freeze, survive 00:00:33 Different banknote sizes in countries 00:01:05 Fungi closer to animals than plants 00:01:38 Wild bananas: full of seeds 00:02:07 Bats: only flying mammals 00:02:33 Beefalo: cow-bison hybrid 00:03:13 Penguins propose with pebbles 00:03:45 Argentina’s "burning" river 00:04:19 Pyramids of Giza: originally colorful 00:05:00 Whales "sing" underwater 00:05:25 Giant water lilies support human weight 00:05:53 Turtles: ancient armored relics 00:06:25 World’s smallest island: few square meters 00:06:56 Italy’s museum of canal-found objects 00:07:30 Underwater waterfall exists 00:08:13 Hippos sweat red? 00:08:41 Olive oil fights cancer 00:09:15 Why snails bury themselves 00:09:39 Dragonflies: six legs, no steps 00:10:15 Dr. Seuss invented "nerd" 00:10:44 Mercury: year shorter than day 00:11:18 Elephant trunk: 40k muscles 00:11:55 Car aromas reduce accidents 00:12:21 Turkey’s palaces for stray cats 00:12:48 Japan’s robot-run hotels 00:13:20 Sunset on Mars 00:13:54 AI since 1950s 00:14:30 Sloth holds breath for 40 mins 00:15:04 Born Feb 29: 1 in 1,461 chance 00:15:40 Pennsylvania’s highest peak lower than Colorado’s lowest 00:16:09 Inca city withstands earthquakes 00:16:40 Sahara: largest desert on Earth 00:17:09 Messages in bottles travel years 00:17:37 Human eye surpasses cameras 00:18:11 Organic food: truth or myth? 00:18:48 USA’s "rain of spiders" 00:19:23 Japan’s paper buildings 00:19:53 Great Wall of China: sticky rice secret 00:20:20 Arctic tern: longest journey 00:20:56 Earth’s "stone forest" 00:21:38 Ancient Romans wore togas 00:22:09 World’s most isolated island 00:22:38 Human nose: super-sensitive 00:23:12 Goosebumps: evolutionary artifact 00:23:56 LASER: acronym 00:24:34 Tower of London: once bright white 00:25:03 Ostriches can’t walk backward 00:25:24 Sunlight takes 8 mins to reach Earth 00:25:52 Antarctica: largest desert 00:26:29 Origin of "honeymoon" 00:27:01 Average person: 6 months at traffic lights 00:27:30 DNA discovery changed science 00:28:03 Hear bridges in Italy? 00:28:30 Spain’s ghost city: no residents 00:29:08 El Popo: Mexico’s fiery mountain 00:29:40 Platypuses: venomous 00:30:08 Giraffes barely sleep 00:30:33 Earth’s gravity varies 00:31:18 Largest family: 180+ members 00:31:51 Sperm whales: loudest creatures 00:32:25 Tokyo’s 60-floor inverted tower 00:32:58 Most venomous snake: Australia 00:33:29 Fish live without water 00:33:52 Jellyfish: 95% water 00:34:23 Longest movie: 857 hours 00:34:59 Germany’s crocodile farm 00:35:25 First alarm clock: one ring time 00:35:58 Kissing camels banned in Egypt 00:36:25 Poland’s bent trees 00:36:53 Italian city with no streets 00:37:26 Donkeys more personality than horses 00:37:56 Turkey’s ancient underground city for 20k 00:38:33 Popsicle: accidental invention 00:39:12 Iceland rivers change direction 00:39:40 Scorpions glow in dark 00:40:05 Fawns: no scent 00:40:30 Owls: asymmetrical ears 00:41:04 Underwater lakes exist 00:41:42 Giraffes’ black tongues 00:42:08 Why chickens don’t fly like eagles 00:42:48 Japan’s volcanic ash island 00:43:16 Octopuses lay eggs like chickens 00:43:46 Double rainbow on Mars 00:44:19 First computer bug: real bug 00:44:50 Glass "flows" 00:45:18 Nile: longest river 00:45:52 Volcanoes’ "blue fire" 00:46:27 Lasers find "ghost city" under jungle 00:46:56 Giraffes, humans: same neck vertebrae

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