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