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