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