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