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