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