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