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