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