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