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