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