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