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