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