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