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