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