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