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