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