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