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