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