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