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