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