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