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