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