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