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