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