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