Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people.
Fun fact. Well, not for the poor giraffes
Identical twins have the same fingerprints
No way, Jose
Your brain is constantly eating itself.
Yup! It's rather hungry. It's called phagocytosis
The largest piece of fossilised dinosaur poo discovered is over 2 m long
Massive poo and massive lie
A chicken once lived for 1 week without a head.
Straight-up lie because it was 18 MONTHS!
Wearing a tie can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5%
Fun and uncomfortable fact
The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Fun fact and really triggering for the ones who suffer from it
The world’s oldest dog lived to 32 years
Nope, just got to 29 and then he went to dog's heaven
The world’s oldest cat lived to 38 years and three days old.
Yup! True story. And his name was Creme Puff
Our solar system has another star
Not really. No
NASA genuinely faked the Moon landing.
NOPE! While Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface were categorically not faked, the astronaut quarantine protocol was a show
Comets smell like rotten eggs.
Sure! And your farts too
Football teams wearing blue kits play better.
Nope, but the ones who wear red do. A review of football matches in the last 55 years, for example, showed that teams in a red kit consistently played better
A horse has more than one horsepower
Usually they have around 24, if they are not dying of old age
Hippos can’t swim.
Hippos really do have big bones, so big and dense, in fact, that they’re barely buoyant at all. They perform a slow-motion gallop on the river bed
