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