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