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