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