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