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