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