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