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