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