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