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