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