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