A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
Category: animals
Weird & Fun Facts
Short, interesting facts — static and crawlable.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
Category: animals
Octopuses have three hearts.
Category: animals
Elephants cannot jump.
Category: animals
Sloths can hold their breath underwater for up to 40 minutes.
Category: animals
A shrimp's heart is located inside its head.
Category: animals
Crocodiles cannot stick their tongues out.
Category: animals
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.
Category: animals
Cats spend roughly 15 hours a day sleeping.
Category: animals
Dolphins have names for each other.
Category: animals
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Category: animals
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.
Category: animals
Koalas have fingerprints that look nearly identical to human fingerprints.
Category: animals
A cow's stomach has four compartments.
Category: animals
Hedgehogs are born without quills, which grow shortly after birth.
Category: animals
Ostrich eyes are larger than their brains.
Category: animals
A snail can sleep for up to three years.
Category: animals
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.
Category: animals
Kangaroos and emus cannot walk backward.
Category: animals
Male platypuses are venomous.
Category: animals
The human brain cannot feel pain.
Category: human_body
Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve steel.
Category: human_body
The human nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
Category: human_body
You cannot sneeze with your eyes open.
Category: human_body
It is physically impossible for most people to lick their own elbow.
Category: human_body
You are about one centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
Category: human_body
Human teeth are just as strong as shark teeth.
Category: human_body
Newborn babies start with 300 bones, but adults only have 206.
Category: human_body
The strongest muscle in the human body is the jaw muscle.
Category: human_body
The human eye can distinguish approximately 10 million different colors.
Category: human_body
Your ears and nose never stop growing.
Category: human_body
Humans are the only animals that produce emotional tears.
Category: human_body
The smallest bone in your body is in your ear.
Category: human_body
Every human has a unique tongue print.
Category: human_body
The surface area of the human lungs is roughly the size of a tennis court.
Category: human_body
Your body creates about 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime.
Category: human_body
The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply; it gets oxygen directly from the air.
Category: human_body
You cannot hum while holding your breath.
Category: human_body
Your heart beats about 115,000 times a day.
Category: human_body
You burn more calories while sleeping than while watching TV.
Category: human_body
Honey never spoils.
Category: food_science
Bananas are technically berries, but strawberries aren't.
Category: food_science
Apples float because they are 25% air.
Category: food_science
Bananas glow blue under a black light.
Category: food_science
Carrots were originally purple, not orange.
Category: food_science
Popcorn has been around for thousands of years.
Category: food_science
Watermelons are 92% water.
Category: food_science
Cranberries bounce when they are fully ripe.
Category: food_science
White chocolate contains no cocoa solids.
Category: food_science
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Category: food_science
Spam was originally an acronym for 'Shoulder of Pork and Meat.'
Category: food_science
A fluffy white cumulus cloud weighs around one million pounds.
Category: food_science
Lightning strikes the Earth 100 times every second.
Category: food_science
Water expands when it freezes, which is why ice floats.
Category: food_science
Glass is actually a very slow-moving liquid, not a solid.
Category: food_science
Hot water freezes faster than cold water (the Mpemba effect).
Category: food_science
Diamonds are made entirely of compressed carbon.
Category: food_science
The Earth's core is as hot as the surface of the sun.
Category: food_science
Sound travels about four times faster in water than in air.
Category: food_science
Earth's rotation is slowly slowing down by about 1.8 seconds per century.
Category: food_science
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
Category: space_earth
Mauna Kea in Hawaii is taller than Mount Everest if measured from its underwater base.
Category: space_earth
There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Category: space_earth
Mars is shaped like a rugby ball, not a perfect sphere.
Category: space_earth
There is a lake in the Arctic that sits on top of an island.
Category: space_earth
The surface of Mars is covered in iron oxide (rust), which gives it a red color.
Category: space_earth
Saturn is the only planet that could float in water because it is made mostly of gas.
Category: space_earth
Jupiter has the shortest day of any planet in the solar system, rotating once every 10 hours.
Category: space_earth
Space is completely silent because there is no air to carry sound vibrations.
Category: space_earth
Mount Everest is still growing taller by about 4 millimeters every year.
Category: space_earth
The Pacific Ocean is wider than the Moon.
Category: space_earth
Africa is the only continent that spans all four hemispheres.
Category: space_earth
Japan has one vending machine for about every 40 people.
Category: space_earth
Finland has more saunas than cars.
Category: space_earth
Antarctica is the only continent without any reptiles or snakes.
Category: space_earth
Rain contains traces of vitamin B12.
Category: space_earth
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth.
Category: space_earth
The solar system has an invisible 'wall' called the heliopause that separates it from interstellar space.
Category: space_earth
Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
Category: space_earth
Neutron stars are so dense that a single teaspoon of their material would weigh a billion tons.
Category: space_earth
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Category: history_society
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.
Category: history_society
Woolly mammoths were still roaming the Earth when the Great Pyramids were being built.
Category: history_society
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
Category: history_society
The longest war in history lasted 38 minutes (The Anglo-Zanzibar War).
Category: history_society
McDonald's once served bubblegum-flavored broccoli.
Category: history_society
George Washington did not have a college degree.
Category: history_society
In the 1830s, ketchup was sold as medicine.
Category: history_society
The Eiffel Tower grows up to 6 inches taller in the summer due to thermal expansion.
Category: history_society
The Rubik's Cube was invented to help students understand 3D geometry.
Category: history_society
Walt Disney had the most Academy Awards, with a lifetime total of 26.
Category: history_society
Sliced bread was considered an invention greater than the vacuum cleaner when it was first introduced.
Category: history_society
Mail used to be delivered by pigeons, and it still is for some remote locations.
Category: history_society
Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
Category: history_society
Soccer (the word) actually originated in England as a slang abbreviation for 'association football'.
Category: history_society
The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon in the Philippines.
Category: history_society
Sunflowers are excellent at absorbing radiation and were used after nuclear disasters.
Category: history_society
Fortune cookies were invented in California, not China.
Category: history_society
The Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 men.
Category: history_society
The first computer weighed 27 tons and took up a whole room.
Category: history_society
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