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