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