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