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