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