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