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