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