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