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