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