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