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