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