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