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