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

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

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