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