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