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