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