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