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