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