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