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