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