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