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