â
Rats laugh when tickled.â
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.â
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.â
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.â
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.â
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.â
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.â
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.â
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.â
Bees can recognize individual human faces.â
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.â
Humans are the only animals that blush.â
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.â
Octopuses can taste with their arms.â
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.â
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.â
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.â
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.â
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.â
A flock of crows is known as a murder.â
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.â
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.â
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.â
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.â
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.â
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.â
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.â
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.â
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.â
Horses physically cannot vomit.â
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.â
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.â
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.â
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.â
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.â
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.â
Butterflies taste with their feet.â
Dolphins have names for each other.â
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.â
A snail can sleep for three years straight.â
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.â
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.â
Ostriches can run faster than horses.â
A group of frogs is called an army.â
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.â
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.â
A hippo's sweat is pink.â
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.â
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.â
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.â
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.â
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.â
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.â
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.â
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.â
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.â
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.â
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.â
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.â
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.â
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.â
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.â
A mosquito has 47 teeth.â
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.â
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.â
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.â
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.â
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.â
The moon has moonquakes.â
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.â
A group of owls is called a parliament.â
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.â
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.â
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.â
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.â
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.â
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.â
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.â
An octopus has nine brains.â
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.â
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.â
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.â
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.â
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.â
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.â
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.â
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.â
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.â
Cats can't taste sweetness.â
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.â
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.â
Goldfish can recognize human faces.â
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.â
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.â
The first computer mouse was made of wood.â
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.â
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.â
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.â
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.â
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.â
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.â
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.â
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.â
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.â
Sloths only poop about once a week.â
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.â
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.â
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.â
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.â
Pineapples take about two years to grow.â
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.â
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.â
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.â
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.â
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.â
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.â
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.â
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.â
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.â
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.â
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.â
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.â
A group of ferrets is called a business.â
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.â
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.â
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.â
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.â
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.â
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.â
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.â
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.â
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.â
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.â
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.â
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.â
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.
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Rats laugh when tickled.â
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.â
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.â
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.â
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.â
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.â
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.â
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.â
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.â
Bees can recognize individual human faces.â
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.â
Humans are the only animals that blush.â
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.â
Octopuses can taste with their arms.â
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.â
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.â
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.â
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.â
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.â
A flock of crows is known as a murder.â
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.â
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.â
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.â
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.â
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.â
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.â
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.â
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.â
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.â
Horses physically cannot vomit.â
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.â
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.â
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.â
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.â
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.â
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.â
Butterflies taste with their feet.â
Dolphins have names for each other.â
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.â
A snail can sleep for three years straight.â
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.â
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.â
Ostriches can run faster than horses.â
A group of frogs is called an army.â
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.â
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.â
A hippo's sweat is pink.â
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.â
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.â
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.â
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.â
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.â
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.â
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.â
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.â
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.â
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.â
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.â
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.â
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.â
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.â
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.â
A mosquito has 47 teeth.â
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.â
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.â
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.â
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.â
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.â
The moon has moonquakes.â
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.â
A group of owls is called a parliament.â
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.â
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.â
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.â
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.â
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.â
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.â
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.â
An octopus has nine brains.â
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.â
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.â
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.â
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.â
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.â
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.â
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.â
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.â
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.â
Cats can't taste sweetness.â
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.â
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.â
Goldfish can recognize human faces.â
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.â
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.â
The first computer mouse was made of wood.â
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.â
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.â
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.â
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.â
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.â
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.â
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.â
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.â
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.â
Sloths only poop about once a week.â
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.â
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.â
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.â
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.â
Pineapples take about two years to grow.â
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.â
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.â
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.â
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.â
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.â
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.â
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.â
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.â
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.â
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.â
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.â
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.â
A group of ferrets is called a business.â
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.â
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.â
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.â
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.â
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.â
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.â
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.â
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.â
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.â
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.â
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.â
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.â
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.