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