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