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