22 Random Facts You Should Know To Become a Better Person: #18 Will Blow You Away!

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My neighbor is getting their house reroofed today. Between the saws screaming and the hammers pounding, it’s hard to create a coherent story. So I thought I’d try to make a viral post applicable to anyone reading today. Will reading this make you a better person? Let me know. But you will probably learn something new.

1. The only bird that can fly backward for a sustainable period is the hummingbird.
2. A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same forward or backward. The longest single-word English palindrome is tattarattat, which is also an example of onomatopoeia. The longest single-word palindrome in any language is saippuakivikauppias which is Finnish for a dealer in lye.
3. Asian and African Elephants in the wild only get about 2–3 hours of sleep per day.
4. Just like our sense of smell is tied to our sense of taste, our sense of sound can also be tied to our sense of sight. Check out this video about the McGurk effect to learn more.