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