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