The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BCE to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was American poet Aimee Nezheukumatathil, possibly afraid of their own surname, who coined the term how we know it in 2000.

The fear of long words is called what?

While the median age a dog reaches tends to be about 10-15 years, one Australian cattle dog survived to the ripe old age of 29.5. Their name was 'Bluey.' 🥺

The world’s oldest dog lived to ___.

While Neil Armstrong's first steps on the lunar surface were categorically not faked, the astronaut quarantine protocol when the astronauts arrived back on Earth was largely just one big show.

NASA genuinely faked part of the Apollo 11 mission.

Ants breathe through spiracles, nine or ten tiny openings, depending on the species.

Which of these creatures do not have lungs?

A review of football matches in the last 55 years showed that teams wearing a red uniform consistently played better in home matches than teams in any other color.

Football teams wearing this color uniform statistically play better in home matches.

Snails have between 1,000 and 12,000 teeth, to be precise. They aren’t like ours, though. You’ll find the snail's tiny teeth all over its file-like tongue.

Which of these creatures have teeth?

A study in 1993 showed that the maximum power a horse can produce is 18,000W, around 24 horsepower.

A horse's speed is normally ___ horsepower.

Known as polythelia, the third nipple is caused by a mutation in inactive genes. As of 2022, there were only 40 known cases in history of children born with a tail, and 1 in every 2,000-3,000 children are born each year with webbed feet.

1 in 18 people are born with ___.

Due to being rich in potassium, every banana is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. 

Bananas are radioactive.

Because their bones are so big and dense, hippos are barely buoyant at all. Instead of swimming, they perform a slow-motion gallop on the riverbed or on the sea floor.

Hippos can’t swim.

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