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