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