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