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