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