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