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