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