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