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