β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.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
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.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
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.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
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.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
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.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
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.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
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.