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