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