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