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