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