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