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