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