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Did you know? the longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles)

Did you knowt:  3 most common languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and English

Cats prefer to sleep on their left. This preference may help them engage the right hemisphere of their brains, so they can better visually…

Cats prefer to sleep on their left. This preference may help them engage the right hemisphere of their brains, so they can better visually…

Mount Everest isn’t the tallest mountain on Earth. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the twin volcanoes, are taller than Mount Everest as…

Most maps of the world are wrong. On most maps, the Mercator projection – first developed in 1569 – is still used. This method…

When you cut a worm in two, it regenerates. That said, this only works if it’s cut widthways – and not all will. Earthworms can…

You can actually die laughing. And a number of people have, typically due to intense laughter causing a heart attack or suffocation. Comedy…

When you’re reading – even silently – the muscles of your mouth, tongue and larynx activate. This process is called ‘subvocalisation’. We’re…

The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE…