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