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