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