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