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