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