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