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