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