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