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