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