β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.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
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.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
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.
β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.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
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.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
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.