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