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