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