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