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