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