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