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