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