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