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