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