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