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