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