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