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