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