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