- When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
- Ostriches have a powerful immune system.
- Some fish cough. Really.
- Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely).
- U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper u2013 it's actually a blend of cotton and linen.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
- It is impossible to sneeze while you are sleeping.
- Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
- A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.
- Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
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