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