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