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