Relaxing Facts For Better Sleep
by Tahseen K
Ease into a restful night with soothing, interesting facts designed to calm your mind and gently guide you to sleep. Perfect for winding down and letting go of the day. Voice: Louise Music: Enlightened Audio
Transcript
The original name for butterflies was flutterbys.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.
The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.
Scotland has 421 words for snow.
Carrots were originally purple,
Not orange.
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
A single spaghetti noodle is called a spaghetto.
Apples float because they are 25% air.
Penguins propose with pebbles.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who eat bananas.
Octopuses taste with their tentacles.
The average cloud contains millions of pounds of water.
Ducks can surf waves for fun.
There is a species of jellyfish that is technically immortal.
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
Starfish don't have brains or blood.
Some frogs can freeze solid and come back to life.
Giraffes only sleep for about 30 minutes a day.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun.
Cats have over 20 muscles in each ear.
A blue whale's heart is the size of a small car.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The first oranges weren't orange,
They were green.
You can fit 63 Earths inside Uranus.
Peanuts aren't nuts,
They're legumes.
The heart of a shrimp is in its head.
Kangaroos can't walk backward.
Flamingos are only pink because of their diet.
The unicorn is Scotland's national animal.
Pineapples take two years to grow.
The blobfish was named the world's ugliest animal.
Sloths can turn their heads nearly 270 degrees.
The moon is moving away from Earth at 1.
5 inches per year.
A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.
The word bookkeeper has three consecutive double letters.
Jellyfish are 95% water.
A group of ferrets is called a business.
Butterflies can taste with their feet.
The human nose can detect over a trillion scents.
Sharks existed before trees.
Grasshoppers have ears on their stomachs.
Venus flytraps can count.
The longest word in English is 189,
819 letters long.
Male seahorses carry the babies.
Watermelon is both a fruit and a vegetable.
The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
The inventor of the Frisbee was turned into a Frisbee after he died.
Kangaroos can't fart.
The dot on dice is called a pip.
The fear of long words is called hippopotamonstrosesquipedaliphobia.
A day on Mercury lasts 1,
408 hours.
Some fish can walk on land.
A group of frogs is called an army.
Strawberries have more vitamin C than oranges.
A cat's purr can help bones heal.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Spiders can't get stuck in their own webs.
The first teabags were accidental.
Dolphins give themselves names.
A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,
000 slices of bread.
The inventor of Velcro got the idea from burrs stuck to his dog's fur.
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth.
Bananas are naturally radioactive.
There is a species of spider that can fly using electrical fields.
The average person laughs 13 times a day.
There's enough iron in your body to make a small nail.
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.
A flea can jump 350 times its body length.
Wombat poop is square-shaped.
There's a planet made entirely of diamonds.
The average cumulus cloud weighs 1.
1 million pounds.
Earth once had a supercontinent called Pangaea.
Some worms can regrow their entire body from just a fragment.
The M's in M&M's stands for Mars and Murray.
Octopus tentacles have a mind of their own.
A day on Mars is just over 24 hours.
Frogs can't vomit.
They spit out their entire stomach instead.
The human brain is 78% water.
Snakes can sense earthquakes days before they happen.
The shortest war in history lasted 38 minutes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Avocados are technically berries.
A giraffe's tongue can be up to 20 inches long.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward.
Some species of fungi can glow in the dark.
The oldest known creature was a 507-year-old clam.
A jiffy is an actual unit of time.
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches in summer.
A single teaspoon of honey is the life's work of 12 bees.
The original name for butterflies was flutterbys.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.
The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorpe.
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.
Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins.
Scotland has 421 words for snow.
Carrots were originally purple,
Not orange.
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
A single spaghetti noodle is called a spaghetto.
Apples float because they are 25% air.
Penguins propose with pebbles.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Mosquitoes are attracted to people who eat bananas.
Octopuses taste with their tentacles.
The average cloud contains millions of pounds of water.
Ducks can surf waves for fun.
There is a species of jellyfish that is technically immortal.
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
Starfish don't have brains or blood.
Some frogs can freeze solid and come back to life.
Giraffes only sleep for about 30 minutes a day.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun.
Cats have over 20 muscles in each ear.
