1. Cats have over 100 vocal chords. Makes you wonder how many keys they can say “Meow” in! And cats can sleep 16 hours or more every 24 hours.

貓咪可以發出超越100種聲音，你或許會想了解喵星人到底能發出來多少種音調的“喵” 叫聲。另外貓咪天天能睡16個小時甚至更久。

2. Shrimp can only swim backwards, turtles breathe through their asses, fish can drown and a duck can't walk without bobbing its head. This always looks so funny to me.

蝦只能往后游，烏龜用屁股呼吸，魚也會溺水，鴨子不擺頭就不會走。這類我都感覺好有趣！

3. 11% of people in the world are left-handed. Makes you wonder about all those left-handed desks there were in elementary school. When you mistakenly sat in one everything was wrong with the world.

世界上有11%的人是左撇子， 這或許會叫你想到小學里有些左撇子課桌。如果不小心坐到了左撇子課桌，你會發現全世界都混亂了。

4. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows!

蒙娜麗莎沒眉毛。

5. The average raindrop falls at 7mph, which is I guess why it hurts so much when hail is pelleting you from the sky.

雨點平均降低速度為每小時7英里（約為11千米），我猜這也是為何冰雹從天空中降落砸到大家會感覺那樣疼。

6. Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia — just a few of of the States that are named after a real human.

特拉華州、喬治亞州、路易斯安那州、紐約州、賓夕法尼亞州、馬里蘭州、弗吉尼亞州，美國50個州當中只有這幾個是依據真實名字命名的。

7. No matter how hard you try, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. I just tried it — it can't be done.

不過你多努力地嘗試，你都沒辦法將一張紙對半折超越7次，我試過了，我辦不到。

8. If you think about it, “Typewriter” is the longest word you can type on a keyboard that only uses a single row of qwerty letters.

假如你仔細想想，你會發現“Typewriter” （打字機）是鍵盤上只用一行字母就能打出來的最長的英文單詞。

9. Because things get expand when they heated, hot water is actually HEAVIER than cold water.

由于物體遇熱膨脹，所以熱水其實要比冷水重。

10. Unfortunately, we daydream less as we get older and older. I guess reality and bills set in.

不幸的是，伴隨大家年齡愈加大，大家做的白日夢就會愈加少。我猜是由于殘酷的現實和堆積的賬單的重壓吧。

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