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