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