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