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