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