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