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