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