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