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