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