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