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