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