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