β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.
β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.