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