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