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