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