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