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