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