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