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