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