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