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