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