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