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