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