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