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