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