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