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