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