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