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