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