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