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- Category: Animal
- Tarantulas can survive up to 2 years without food
- Rabbits can see behind them without turning around
- A group of ferrets is called Business
- In Tokyo Japan, they sell toupees for dogs
- Baby rabbits are called kittens
- The shark in Jaws movie is named Bruce
- Flamingos are pink because of what they eat
- A new born kangaroo is small enough to fit in a teaspoon
- Cows sweat through their nose
- Snails can pull 200 times their own weight
- The original name for butterfly was butterfloege
- The world’s oldest dog died at the age of 29
- A lion’s roar can be heard five miles away
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open
- Turtles can breathe through their bums
- Ants can survive falling from a skyscraper
- Otters sleep holding hands
- Elephants walk on their tiptoes
- The leg bones of a bat are so thin that they cannot walk
- Honey bees have hair on their eyes
- Monkeys peel bananas upside down
- No one has ever been killed by a shark in Bermuda
- An African bat can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking on sand from a distance of more than six feet
- The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F
- Cats dislike the smell of citrus
- Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds
- White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
- Cats are the only animals that purr
- A group of owls is called a parliament
- A group of whales is called a pod
- A group of kangaroos is called a mob
- A group of rhinos is called a crash
- Pigs cannot look up to the sky
- Cats cannot move their jaw sideways
- An octopus pupil is rectangular
- Reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube
- A snail can sleep for three years
- An elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature
- Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
- A hummingbird’s heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute
- Frogs don’t drink water
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
- An animal epidemic is called an epizootic
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason
- The underside of a horse’s hoof is called a frog
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; a group of geese in the air is a skein
- Mountain goats can walk almost straight up a cliff
- Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike
- A duck cannot walk without bobbing its head
- A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue
- Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk
- Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
- Newborn Dalmatians are always pure white
- Turritopsis nutricula jellyfish are biologically immortal
- Butterflies taste with their feet
- A group of frogs is called an army
- Elephant is the only mammal that cannot jump
- An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a small deer
- Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs
- Elephants sleep about 3 to 4 hours a day
- Fingerprints of a koala bear are almost indistinguishable from those of a human, so much so that they can be confused at a crime scene
- Emus have double-plumed feathers
- Frog can survive being frozen
- Camel’s milk does not curdle
- A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off
- Cats have over 100 vocal chords
- The giraffe sleeps the least number of hours per day, clocking just 1.9 hours on average
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
- African Grey Parrots have the capacity to have a vocabulary of over 950 words
- All insects have 6 legs
- Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
- Spiders are arachnids and not insects
- Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
- Cats spend 66% of their life asleep
- Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
- Birds need gravity to swallow
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
- Reindeer like bananas
- Armadillos have 4 babies at a time and are all the same sex
- A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue
- Rabbits love liquorice
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain
- A bear has 42 teeth
- Category: Architecture
- The Eiffel Tower is six inches taller in summer than winter
- The Great Wall of China is approximately 21,000 km long (13,000 miles)
- The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity
- The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude
- If the Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT was a golf ball, to be the proportional size to hit it, you’d be two miles tall
- The tablet that the statue of liberty holds is two feet thick
- Category: Food
- Kinder Surprise Eggs are illegal in the United States
- Chocolate milkshake is the ideal post workout drink
- You can use peanuts to make dynamite
- Watermelon is vegetable in Oklahoma state
- NASA invented baby food
- McDonalds fries contain beef
- Worcestershire sauce is made of dissolved fish
- There is no butter in buttermilk
- Instant coffee was invented in 1901
- Grapes spark when you put them in the microwave
- Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961
- French fries are originally from Belgium
- The average human consumes over 50 tons of food during a lifetime
- Popcorn was invented by the Natives in Peru
- Coconut water can be used as a substitute for blood plasma
- Apples are more effective than coffee at waking you up in the morning
- Tomato sauce (ketchup) was sold in the 1830s as medicine
- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas
- The croissant was invented in Austria
- The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954
- The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco
- Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine
- M&M’s chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie
- Honey is the only natural food which never spoil
- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries
- Category: General
- Category: Geography
- Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador
- Brazil covers almost half of the South American continent
- Brazil is named after a tree
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest ocean in the world
- Bishop Rock in the UK is the smallest island in the world
- Avenida 9 de Julio in Argentina is the world’s widest road
- The Swiss flag is square
- The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs
- The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada
- Australia was originally called New Holland
- The continent with the most active volcanoes is Asia
- The flag for Libya is unlike any other being a solid green color
- The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia
- Tennessee is bordered by 8 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia
- Dodge City, Kansas is the windiest city in the USA
- The names of all continents both start and end with the same letter
- Category: Human
- Just 1% of humans have red hair
- Humans stink more than other animals
- Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed
- Anatidaephobia is the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you
- A broken heart is known medically as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
- Tibetan monks sleep upright
- About one liter of blood flows through the brain every minute
- Noses and Ears Continue to Grow as We Age
- Human eye can detect 10 million colors
- Your body sheds a million flakes of skin everyday
- Dead people fart just after dying
- Your ears make more wax when you are scared
- The human body of a 70 kg person contains 0.2mg of gold
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
- The index finger is the most sensitive finger of the hand
- The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in the human body not attached to any other
- Enamel is the hardest substance in your body
- your skin is the largest organ making up the human body
- Your eyes blink 4 times less when reading
- An average person will spend 25 years asleep
- Pogonophobia is a fear of beards
- The human heart beats 3 billion times in a lifetime
- The longest jail sentence passed was 10,000 years
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year
- The average human consumes over 50 tons of food during a lifetime
- You see better when you are scared
- The skin between your index finger and thumb is called webbing
- The average English speaker knows around 50,000 words
- Women cry four times as much as men
- You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
- Vitamin D increases speed of sperm cells
- Tongue is the fastest healing part of human body
- 25% of your bones are located in your feet
- The average human brain contains around 78% water
- Your foot has 26 bones in it
- Human eyes are always the same size from the birth
- All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes
- A person blinks 17,000 times a day
- On average, people have 4-6 dreams per night
- Babies fall asleep directly into REM sleep
- There are more than 70 sleep disorders
- About 90% of the world’s population kisses
- The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear
- 8% of people have an extra rib
- The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes
- Unless food is mixed with saliva you can’t taste it
- August has the highest percentage of births
- 11% of people are left handed
- Category: Literature
- The first smiley ever written was in 1982
- Scraunched is one of the longest one syllable English word
- The Spanish word for “wife” also means handcuffs
- The dot on top of the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle
- “Uncopyrightable” is one of the longest words in the English dictionaries that does not repeat any letters
- Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel
- “Bookkeeper”, “bookkeeping” and “sweettooth” are the only 3 words in the English language with three consecutive double letters
- The longest English word typeable using only the top row of a letters is “rupturewort”
- There no word for yesterday in the Eskimo language
- We can udnretsnad any msseed up stnecene as lnog as the lsat and frsit ltteers of a wrod are in crrcoet pclae
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3…) it totals 5050
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
- The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English alphabet
- The least used letter in the alphabet is Q
- The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E
- Category: Nature
- It takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth
- Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants
- The sun’s energy output is 385 yotta watt
- Mountains cannot grow higher than 49,000 feet
- The Amazon rainforest produces 20 percent of the world’s oxygen supply
- There are about 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand in the world
- The shape of plant collenchyma cells and the shape of the bubbles in beer foam are the same – they are orthotetrachidecahedrons
- A strawberry is the only fruit which seeds grow on the outside
- The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust
- Forest fire move faster uphill than downhill
- 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun
- Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute
- Sponges hold more cold water than hot
- 90% of an iceberg sits under water
- Sound travels almost 5 times faster underwater than in air
- We can always see only one side of the moon
- When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees Celsius (54,000 degrees Fahrenheit)
- 85% of plant life is found in the ocean
- Category: Person
- Justin Bieber can solve a Rubik cube in 2 minutes
- The Volkswagen Beetle was Hitlers idea
- Prince Charles became a member of the Magic Circle after auditioning with his “cups and balls” trick
- At one time Hugo Boss made uniforms for the Nazi’s
- Fidel Castro has slept with 35,000 women in his 82 years of life
- Hitler was a vegetarian
- Santa’s costume was originally green
- Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy
- Queen Elizabeth II is the largest landowner on Earth
- Elvis Presley’s Middle Name was Aaron
- Ralph Lauren’s original name was Ralph Lifshitz
- Category: Recreation
- The film “Mary Poppins” was filmed entirely indoors
- The average golf ball has 336 dimples
- King of Hearts is the only King without a mustache on a playing card
- There are 22 stars in the Paramount studios logo
- Guitar strings were originally made of cat gut
- Approximately 12 people are killed each year in kiting accidents throughout the world
- Karate originated in India, but was developed further in China
- Lonely Planet Travel Guides is based in Melbourne Australia
- The average speed (Terminal velocity) of skydiver is about 124 mph (200 kph)
- Category: Science & Technology
- Viagra keeps flowers from wilting
- 1 billion seconds is 32 years
- The first product to have a barcode included was a packet of Wrigley’s Gum
- The Volkswagen Beetle was Hitlers idea
- You can warm up a cup of coffee by shouting
- The oldest web domain is symbolics.com registered in 1985
- The message receiving tone on Nokia is ‘SMS’ in Morse code
- Apple computer was founded on April Fools Day
- The umbrella was originally invented to protect against sunlight
- Pearls melt in vinegar
- Paper originated from China
- A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt
- Grapes spark when you put them in the microwave
- The safest car color is white
- The word laser stands for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”
- 90 percent of emails sent every day are spam
- Tequila can make synthetic diamonds
- The original name of Google was BackRub
- It takes a train over a mile to come to a complete stop
- 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire are strung across the U.S.
- The straw was probably invented by Sumerians to taste in-process beer without drinking the solid byproducts of fermentation that sink to the bottom
- The Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense
- Category: Society
- To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours
- There are towns in France where it is illegal to die
- Ukulele means a jumping flea in Hawaiian
- “Married” and “poison” are the same word in Sweden
- The oldest bookshop is in Portugal
- Yotta is the largest unit prefix in the International System of Units (SI)
- The movie “Wayne’s World” was filmed in 34 days
- The brand Nokia is named after a place in Southern Finland
- Hilton was the first international hotel chain
- Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world
- A ten-gallon hat holds 3 quarts of a gallon water
- September 19 is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day
- Bank Robberies Most Likely to Happen On Fridays
- Paparazzi means “buzzing mosquitos” in Italian
- There are about 6800 languages in the world
- There are about 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand in the world
- The longest jail sentence passed was 10,000 years
- The longest traffic jam was 110 miles long in China
- The first telephone book made contained only 50 names in 1878
- The first MTV video played was “Video killed the radio star” by the Buggles
- Chewing gum is banned in Singapore
- Mr Potato Head was the first toy advertised on TV
- One Minute of Kissing Burn 26 Calories
- A googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
- A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time for 1/100 of a second
- Dueling is legal in Paraguay if both people are blood donors
- There are an estimated 2000 languages spoken in Africa
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge
- The abbreviation (lb) of the weight measure “pound” came from the Latin word libra
- The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York
- 1 knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph)
- The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is “Live Free or Die”
- The dollar symbol combination of letters U and S
- Money is the number one thing that couples argue about
- Tesseradecades is one of the longest words typable with only the left hand
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON
- The most common language in the world is Mandarin Chinese
- Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters