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