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