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