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