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