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