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