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