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