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