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