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