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