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