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