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