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