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